like speaking through a filter, reaching
for the right words and finding they
won’t fit through the gauze, and it’s only
three of them, can’t we agree on a loophole?
but reaching, reaching and it’s banned,
this content deemed inappropriate and please
contact your network administrators, fumbling
for synonyms and coming against walls
these tricks worked once, but they’re smarter
now, or I am
disarmed, censored, tied up and gagged and
left to fumble with leftover dictionary clippings
and safety scissors in the dark, laying out
magnetic poetry allusions to the world out
where the lights cut out
disarmed, censored, precisely following
habits to the right thing to say and finding
a 404 error