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Lip--Sink

A little filler from the fat on my ass

By Joyce Plair-JordanPublished 6 months ago 1 min read

A colorless, flammable, volatile liquid gets mixed and slathered

By an animated brush, deepening the burgundy on the pout of an animated pooper and

Concentrates a glossy shine on the cherry flavored acetal rims for the camera

Dimming the essence of the one who last sat...de-throwning

Effectively, the one out-housed as a singing-head-cosmetic.

Fleshy-folds updated to one bobbled and framed by an audio visual

Grasping for toner in its bilabial trill

Heckling the industry at its neck,

"If your lips are movin', if your lips are movin', if your lips are movin', then your're lyin'-lyin'-lyin' baby." (Megan Trainor, 2024)

Jingle, jingle--tap, tap

Karaoke with the video-TV-head-imposter

Lipstick on her teeth

Mincing words cooled and refreshed with menthol whose sound is blowing smoke to a pleasant taste on a palate of blunders made through churned water beneath the sound of a flush under a motor boat

Nicked and tucked floating in menthone glycerin

Odorless, colorless, flammable, volatile...

Poison, painted pucker that pickles young minds,

Quarantined memes, in the Matrix minus Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity, but with a resurrected Oracle--

Skibidi

Toilet

Undulant subliminal messages disguised as signals of future communication

Voluminous lip poppin' breaks the circuit like poppin' a peanut or a coochie

"What you know 'bout me, what you know 'bout me? What you know 'bout me, what you what you know?" (Lil Mama, 2008)

X-facto!

You know that menopause brings clarity for loose lips that can't hold water.

Zo, zrandma, zan I zplay zames on your zphone?

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About the Creator

Joyce Plair-Jordan

Depicting life as real as I can make it, poetry and narratives have been the canvas. I consider myself an anthropologist of sorts, even though, I am an educator by trade. A Bachelors in English, a Masters in Education, and a PhD in life.

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