—for the many silence breakers
x happens for a reason
x happens for no reason
x has the power of magnification
x is a voiceless consonant cluster
x is a whisper
x is not that bad—
—x is worse than anyone knows
x is a sex chromosome
y is a sex chromosome—
—why is a question
—why is a response
y can be vowel or consonant, lucky that way
y is the fingers folded, the thumb and pinky extended, saying hang loose—
—y is the same hand tipping thumb to lips, saying drink
—y is the same hand with thumb to ear, pinky to lips, saying call me
y is unrestricted economy travel
—why buy the cow, why in the devil, why in god’s name, why not
x is the horizontal axis
x marks the spot
x marks the choice in a box
x marks a place not to go
x means to cross, is a cross—
—x is an intersection
x is a fist with the first finger raised and crooked like a hook
x is pronounced before a syllable of stress—
—x can be completely silent at the end of what’s said
xoxoxo—x is a kiss
x drawn over the heart is a promise of secrecy
x is drawn over something to negate it—
—x means no
x is a god, a sacrifice
x is infrequent
x multiplies
x has ancestors and descendants—
—x has history behind it and a future ahead of it
x is experimental
x is extreme
x is stimulant and hallucinogen
x is pornographic
x is a whiffed attempt and another two swings—
—x knocks down all the pins
x is the crosshairs marking the target
x risks death by poison
x is the generic version, the no-name
x is a letter—
—x is an ancient number
x creates dimensions, breadth and depth and height
x describes waves with accelerating electrons that see through the skin
x replaces one’s name written in one’s own hand
x hopes with fingers hidden behind the back
x is a placeholder for the unknown thing
x is an independent variable—
—solve for x
