carefully clean the glint of silver
on which you affix this phrase,
next to the ever-so-clever darwin fish
you bought your first year in college.

so free, so perfectly wild, i humble
myself before you with my ignorant
steps, the stutters of prayers that
dribble like drool from my frozen lip.

educated, superbly refined and emphatic,
you are everything that i am not,
open to everything, all the feces you
can swallow is on your heaping, smiling spoon.

shut up.

your damnable coy smile will undo you
as the stitch of time you wrap yourself in
becomes unfurled, a fish with legs that
can only stare into the fast, quick dark.

here comes the wind, there goes your tongue
that spoke such salt, the hands that shook,
the door that was unhinged for all but me,
who sat so silently, waiting, as i am.

here is the part that you never wanted
but secretly hoped for, here is my great delusion,
a host of wings and swords afire, here is
where your knee bends and you must speak, only to Me.

07/03/2009

Author's Note: The amount of bumper stickers you have is directly proportional to how insufferable you are.

Posted on 07/03/2009
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