Silently She lived Silently She died

( 1 )

Silently
She lived
Silently
She died
useless cunt
they said, after they knew
I
fell to my knees
before her corpse
Stripped her
of the shroud
with my nails
wrote on her tombstone
Something

( 2 )

He put on his shirt, carried his umbrella
Uttered no word
Neither did 1.

After he left
I stood in front of the mirror
Slit open my tongue
to see if any words were caught there
Alas
I only saw the muscles and the veins.

I mended the tongue
Burst out laughing
- laughter is not a word
Then I smashed the mirror.

Since then

I have been breaking mirrors In vain

Searching for one
That would reflect
No more; a mirror
That would break me.

( 3 )

It troubles me
that water is colorless
air is tasteless
the hymen.
is without tears.