Swallow (recently revised version)

I want to swallow your words

so I don't have to breathe

because I can' breathe around you anyway.

You tug at my heart strings

and twirl them flirtatiously,

like a phone cord in your fingers,

as you play chords on them.

around you my chords are always major.

I want to swallow your laughter

so I can feel, in my stomach,

what I feel in my stomach

when you laugh.