mouth and tentacles poem

No matter how slow we go
the dogs will follow us down. 

If they're mean dogs they'll hurry us
if they're good dogs they'll hurry us. 

Friends! - friends know when to hustle a lie
through tactical customs, circumventing 
cancerous trailers, like the kind the Feds provided 
to the houseless after Katrina. 
[Fatal trailers, and still in use today.]
A dog finds sweetness on a salty cheek, as do I. 

Pull me sweetly. I surrender. I let go. 
Pull me in closer - I see your mouth -
Ah! it’s full of mouths - I see the walls of teeth of mouths - 
I see the moon - bitten - nursing - 
Euclid's geometry - no - 
Non-Euclidean geometry - no -
It's double lips - a talking cross - roads - 
It's winter, dead as toads - no - 
Sleeping - a catalog of spell starters - a dream carnival - 
Now she's drooling - now a tongue in the wall -
Sated with a tip of dew tasting - 
Walk among your dogs. 

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