Nowhere else.

There's no where to go

but here

and deeper in

drink the dark up

pretend it's chocolate and

I'll follow the sting of it

down your throat

with my single finger

cold on your smooth skin

and you will swallow and smile.

And smile and smile and smile.

Let us begin again

to grab with our glowing teeth

great snatches of the dark

and we will tear it away

gnawing the inky rubber

into a bite

ignoring the taste

as it bounces against your tongue.

Stretch your golden cheeks wide

and then with your slippery laugh

slide the swallow down

while the sound goes slipping away

around the corners and back again

sending echoes back

like a sonogram

and I wonder if that's why we're here

if somewhere in the midst of this deep dark

we're looking for what's been waiting

some ungodly stretch of time

for your laugh and my cold hand

to grow from

and I wonder if this is why you

with your tiny rosebud mouth

and your silly pearls for teeth

are tearing so into the night

ripping great mouthfuls out

and gnashing it into nothing

with small strips of shadow along the edge of your lips

and you wipe it away carelessly and laugh

again and again

and snatch another bite

somewhere out there

in the deep darkness

there is a dream or a child

or something that makes you

aching and hungry and tearing

so we plunge deeper and deeper in

you with your pearl teeth and laugh

and I with cold hands

and all the writhing dark