Hiding

i want to crawl into the soft, dark place

in your mouth

and hide

i want you to swallow me like the Beast
on "Where The Wild Things Are" swallowed the boy

for his own good

i want to be massaged into a ball
of masticated tendons and of flesh
lubricated...ready to be swallowed.
and, when you can roll me around your tongue
like that, what will you choose to do with me?

swallow?

or, spit?