I Want to Hold Things in My Mouth

i'm going to read one, and then we're going to hear victoria reading another. I think there is a real difference between what i'm able to achieve and what she, the author, is able to achieve. So this poem is called choke. I want to hold things in my mouth. A key, buttons, a finger nail, the click of a boiled sweet against enamel. Maybe that's what i'm looking for, my mother's finger down my throat, pushing sugar deep into me. That seems to me so em em personal and brave yer om to hand it over to me to read, as it were.

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