How do you spell a very long scream?

And Sometimes Why

Poem against the speechlessness of oil spills and flotilla attacks.

A

Asthma

Ask Audre

ask Audre angel above

ask

ask about ash

about aid

about asking

about anything

Ask about anguish

and Atlas

about anger at atoms

about artillery

about acid

about animals

about ache

Ask

about authoring abundance

about awe

about awful

Ask Asha

Ask Angela

Ask Assata

about apocalypse

ask about after

about

after about

after

At answer

Ask

Ask

Ask again

At apocalypse

ask again.

E

Early egg

every easy enterprise

each Edenic endeavor

eager executive execution

eats everything

express ending

each ending eats earth

everytime

end

entertain excellence

explain energy

each essence ending

empty economy

emergency everytime

each empty eagle egg

eats everything

ending earth

everytime

end

I

ill innoculate

itching intern

idiot industry

icon inside ice

inside interest

international impasse

impossible island

inside innocence

i

imagine

i ignore

i invade

i invoke

i incite

i identify

i imitate

i isolate

i inflame

i inhabit

i implode

israel

indefinite ice incident

increment

inches inside ideals

ink in iris

inches inside

ices over

indian ink

intimate

indispensible

indigenous

incantation

imperative

i itch

i inch

ice isn’t infinite

is it

O

o owl

o otter

o oak

o oyster

o ozone

o Oya

o Oshun

o Okefenokee

ordain order

o offshore oil

o oil orgy

o ornament oscillation

om

our own out

ooze out our only

onto our own

off our only orbit

out

obey

oil over

our only

ocean

oil options

over olive oil

over our oath

oil over opening ownership

oil over opening our one oath

oil over our opening

our objection

occuptation

o Omar

o Oprah

o Omran

o Obama

o Obsidian ocean

our own occident

over offering

oil

over

our own one

oil

over our only ocean

U

up

use up until until

up up

US uses us

use us up until

up up up

urgent useless us

up up up up

united us unties us up

up until u ululate

unless u unsettle

usher us up

urgent ugly uncle

umbilical up

use us until

up up up

uncage

underneath

unleash

up until up up

until up up up up

u up up up

up up

up

up

up

-Alexis Pauline Gumbs