copper

Metal taste

Pain like pennies in my mouth

Bite down hard, feel the cold agony against my teeth

Blood and copper on my tongue

Rich red and sharp

Clenching my jaw against the

Clenching my jaw against the pound pound pound

Clenching my jaw against the pound pound pound of the veins in my temples

I keep this copper-flavored pain flowing

I keep this copper-flavored pain flowing because

I keep this copper-flavored pain flowing because the pennies hurt less than my thoughts.