bacteria that destroy tissue and bone?

what is not tissue or bone?

 

[pause]

 

what is not tissue or bone?

 

what are the symptoms, they ask,

but stop me before I’m halfway through.

 

that sounds awful.

yes. 

 

I, too, am full of awe.

 

you 

can easily forget that you are sewn to the matter of life

 

I

have stitches coming undone, but slowly.

to see them

each one

a glorious passing.