crazy, calm, and quiet

Crazy, calm, and quiet
Calculating conversed verses
of the neighbour’s crackling table

Complimentary kindness
that only serves the service
is combined with
Cruel conversation
at the heart of it: conversion

Quivering query of the quilting hands
of the queerer and queer
when shaking off shackles and
trembling voices are changing sheaths

Screaming for swords to stop
the one-sided fight
and the calling,
and the staring in sight.