Anyone Can Say What they Want

Anyone can say what they want
but no one can say asterisk*.
it might break a tongue.

II

Myths are where people live in tandem.
our stride, shackled to adjacent religions
coping with adjacent herescies-
tangled in a web of wisdoms
muted by the noise
of clamorous Belief-
on the shore
of an ocean of tripwires
to garrote the stride of an actual
Advance.

III

but my soup is cold fire, and my lemons, pearls.