Kurt Philip Behm

Verbal 19

Spreading like covid

your words it infects

Through vowels into consonants

each phrase it subjects

 

No drug can divert

fated spores on the wind

Arriving like locusts

attacking within

 

The Muse has been stricken

her voice it impales

While spreading to others

each time you exhale

 

The body count deepens

your messaging damned

No cure in the offing

— dead silence at hand

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2025)