Prison Dentist

finger-deep carnage, fresh and bottomless the prison dentist mines decay. the prisoner’s tongue atop the nude wound gums leach throbbing below spit- gauze. the wonder of your own compassion nuzzles

in raw socket jawbone sickness, gnaw-ache, the wreckage of dependable decline. (all uncontrolled probing) --that meat-hole-- pulse steady, soaked bloody salt mouth blooms. suffering. not even your own suffering. balloon-needle heart.