the cost-benefit ratio of our love

op-
opa
opacity of your mind

it's up and it's
up and
it's
up

and i
i don't know if i see mania stuttering between the tracks
or
lithium lithium
dioxides and deoxyribonucleotides,
base sugar phosphate
bass guitar

a lisp in the backs of my teeth where the braces used to be,
the wires,
the frenulum

and god my thinking is so black and white

my thinking is not a monochrome picture today,
it's a binary code

one zero one zero one zero one
on and off and on and off
and it's up
and it's up
and it's
up