Pressure is the feeling at the end of the pipe
building up the want to explode
we carry it wherever least convenient.
Around our necks,
or in between clenched teeth
for fear to let go.
Often while juggling
their eyes – lest we drop
our reflections.
Like a Tariq caught between Gibraltar
and his name.
P is n V T as scientists say
the number of thoughts
times
the Temper of their collisions
(also known as Brownian emotions)
over
the Volume of breaths occupied
adding up
in a hot liquid line straight in the guts
Never forget that
down Deptford high street,
or a street in Mumbai
or on the 3rd planet around Proxima Centauri
no one waits to see
if you really
really are going to—
Pfttt—
building up the want to explode
we carry it wherever least convenient.
Around our necks,
or in between clenched teeth
for fear to let go.
Often while juggling
their eyes – lest we drop
our reflections.
Like a Tariq caught between Gibraltar
and his name.
P is n V T as scientists say
the number of thoughts
times
the Temper of their collisions
(also known as Brownian emotions)
over
the Volume of breaths occupied
adding up
in a hot liquid line straight in the guts
Never forget that
down Deptford high street,
or a street in Mumbai
or on the 3rd planet around Proxima Centauri
no one waits to see
if you really
really are going to—
Pfttt—