Today I set my hair on fire

Today I set my hair on fire

It burned my skin,

The flames grew higher

Until I doused them with a hose

And water dribbled down my nose

Into my mouth and threw my teeth,

My molten hair flowed through, beneath

My tongue and tonsils down my throat

Into my stomach, across the moat

And out my end to porcelain bowl

My hair is now a story told.