"there's no way to the heart better than awkwardly"

[jewish_hippo]

boom-ba-boom-boom

"the shaking hands -- the hands will shake -- there's nothing that we've done that you could call a mistake"

slick your gills --
ah, Gilbert
you're like turpentine to
this
oil painting
(it was me)
and
when you run my surface off
I am bare
silver-point
prickling
with loss --
but
now
that I am basic;
your cleanliness cannot
touch me