My new duet partner is a clever one.  Our duet started with an email titled The Hastily Agreed Twiisted Collaboration.  And the next day the poem below was written.  I happen to love it and I hope all you wonderful readers do too!

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An Art Collaboration HastyKid and HastyWords

Written by Twiistd and HastyWords

♦

The words you speak

I expected

But their uttered sound

I rejected

Graves of a defiant past

open like catacombs

mocking me

♦

Ghostly memories float

in my peripheral

Echoes of that time hang

in the ethereal

I evade the haunting

gaze of your

icy blue stills

♦

An angry cry escapes

so feral

A guttural consonant

so literal

Thrashing tongues twist

into noises

with no worth

♦

Worthless words said

Remembered

Repetitive present love

lays, dismembered

Torn to shreds by

each indecipherable

syllable

♦

Subversion swam

injected

Into veins of betrayal

resurrected

Adrenaline trumpets

filling the silence

with warning

♦

Running from this din

I take heed

Pumped from a cortisol

based feed

I flee hastily, from

my own twiistd

dream