Passive Aggression
I want to live in a world without words
A world where a sweet delicate combination of sounds
Cannot jolt my heartbeat the wrong way
Iβll probably listen a lot better to other sounds
like the incessant honking on an empty road
and my mother clattering dishes in the kitchen
But then
Iβll turn these sounds into thoughts
and thoughts into sounds again
ones that sound sweeter
milder
gentler
so CLONGCLINGCLANGBANG
becomes passive aggression
My tongue smoothing over the sliding ssssses
Passive aggression
is a gentle enough set of sounds
Itβs a soft P
A thread of sssses
A little bump like a firm rock, that G
And more sssses.
Passive Aggression
settles over my face and my nostrils
like a film of plastic
It makes my face itch
I think thatβs just the G
so I shift awkwardly under it
But it clings to my cheeks
I yank
and I hear a RRRRRRRRRRIIIIPPPPPPP
and there goes another
CLANGGGGLANGGGTONGGLINGGINGLING
against the sides of my eyeballs
Passive Aggression did that
No, I donβt like words at all
Sneaky buggers.