a pen being a fine replacement for a tongue
a fine way to get around the tongue
to leave it behind
and all that it could
have possibly said

a pen an axis sticking through layers
that would be silence
prefer to be silence

the rasping of the pen upon the paper
a fine parody of the gestures of speech
making speaking a writing

writing it into something
writing its wrongs
a fine way to deny all its sins
a fine way to replace them with new ones

a pen being
and so ripping through those silent layers
a pen at the end of a hand
extending its gestures into paper
into layers
spearing through directions

a fine thing for someone
to try to be