Encantado Magazine 2018 JUNE Issue | Page 25

e c i Vo r o F Not Fit for a Queen, gold foil wrapped tongue... Lingual articulation so expensive even a Louis Vuitton store is the new Dollar Tree. Finger clicks (tap,send), text driven complexes; too 24-karat to exchange intonation. Each of us drowning the other, deafening tone, silencing voices - slightness of oxygen. “I’d like to buy a vowel and solve the phrase please!!”, but not even Sajak will come out of retirement to give me FORTUNE; no Vanna White. I can no longer decrypt your words, marred by self inflicted, stitches - the corners of your mouth bleed for the chance to find movement in lost frequency. All the while you’d rather taste affliction than heal with words. Tongue tied & lip locked; ear in a seashell, hoping to find your voice in the echo chamber. 25