silence policy

[...]

It begins, you stand there
and smile.
You're calm, you know what to do,
or so they say,
leg next to the other all your toes neatly placed,
five found in each foot,
it's all good,
now you hide.

You have to be
numberless things,
I'm fucking sick of it.
Sick sick sick I like this word and its roundness but
words have to be arranged in a rhyme,
your life tied up to a tamed, tamed rhythm.





Something that happened not so long ago is tapping my back,
I have doubts and no saint to turn to,
no beads to caress, what do I do
I am so sick of it.

[...]




Text:  © Victoria Bardot, 2014. 'Silence Policy' is a series of texts. What is shown in this entry is an excerpt from them.

Image: English supermodel Kate Moss