popcorn was snapping in the hot oil on the kitchen stove 
and the sky through the kitchen window was cold and poised and threatening. 
heard your [bad word] lilting through the wall. 
I heard your [bad word] sailing from the other room. 

let the young [bad word]  
let me break their jaws. 
let the young [bad word] out. 
let me break their jaws with my bare fingers. 

coffee was dripping through the paper filter cone. 
the hip scent of it nearly knocked me out. 
I heard your [bad word] lilting through the back of the refrigerator. 
I heard your [bad word] breaking through the wall. 

let the young [bad word] out. 
let me talk them out of it. 
let the young [bad word]  
let me break their jaws with my bare fingers.