How do you wake-up with a bubble gum in the mouth?

Voices inside the head.

Blurred with time.

 

Dreams come with a strange whirring sound,

like a machine

almost a machine

that needed oiling.

 

I do not remember

sleeping with a bubble gum

Something stuck

Stuck

in my mouth,

It grew

And stuck

Eating my teeth all along

 

Pink,

Rubbery,

Bubble gum

Bubble gum

cementing my insides

Writing/vomiting an untranslatable stubbornness.

 

I wake up

Wake up, wake up

Heavy it seems

Unbreathable

like a grave.

Date: December 31, 2025

Publisher : Sabiha Huq, Professor of English, Khulna University, Bangladesh

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