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the second you become a drug
we’ll have to sterilize you
won’t hesitate to
she’s charming that way
tells us everything she’s thinking
and then turns the volume off
for us so that we live inside
a glass box when really
there’s a glowing diamond
inside her chest it’s really hot
it’s giving off deep earth
there is no life enough for her
without the store window
which is distant beetle to her as China

until that age I’ll be needed
and will have to look for accommodations
a hawk could knock me off
a soldier in the background
cane off with this dilapidation
I am here to witness color
partially it’s my choice
partially out of abundant circulation
whereas so many close
undulate with heat packs
on their routes will take out
all their change for heat packs
if we smash up the globe
cut it up with scissors like its herbs
for more surface area
then I must become liquid
solvent preservative
in which to be dipped in
do not approach the woman who says “Love”
do not extend your hand with a handshake
she has said love
at our fingertips lightning
not whoosh
not even stakes holding up hundred year vine
but to climb
like a spider
in the emergence of
this immaculate port o potty
be Sumerians now

I sit at the other end
of the telephone
there is not a cloud in the sky
I tell myself to move
slightly to the left
on the other end
of the telephone
where what they have
learned of me is not yet
my sun my cloud
our science fictions
the child
cannot be adulterated
the child
cannot be mistaken
for beginner’s luck
they will have their breath mints
they will breathe onto the window
begin the new germ

one hippocratic oath to another
behold an everyday theory
to having our arms full
I don’t like knowing where I came from
but there it is
you are like a painting
I could’ve grown up with
if I were plantagenet
and wouldn’t replace the problems I had
with the problems you would bring me
the population there was unremarkable
unaccounted for even by the census

dextromorphically I’m skipping
through the chords as index cards are chords
tritrating newspapers searching for
an advertisement for perfume
each one fits exactly the terms
of my search each one continues
my search there is a room around you
Valentina there is a room around you
exactly the person I was married to
could be not the person I was married to
but always is and that is my impunity
we could cut our sleeping bag in half
all these sympathizers with jobs
sharing a big room with bunk beds
and us in half together
I appear healthy! I mix powdered cheese
onto the hot plate! I point to my stomach
well did you find it?
no because it turns out
I am looking for an advertisement
for perfume that is pre perfume

no one’s passed you by
physically in the hallway
then they’re metal
the stairs leading from the street
to inside the passageway isn’t
dilated when all of us and me making eggs
come through to you dilated
the hand on the plaque
with words gridlocked
very correspondences hand you
of the fair meters goldilocks
the tree fell but just missed
the neglect you come through
the front door staggering visiting your
earliest vestibular pigment I know your hand
caught in a machine which is a human
wielding a primitive tool
but your body can’t close in on it
with or without the only t-shirt

all I ever wanted was to wake up
be perfect
be mean
take my little dog to daycare
instead my cuticles are ripped
at the edges so that I see
how outside of me I fan out
like a gingko leaf
which is delicate enough
for lads to put on them
but not the same way I jump
out of prostitution where have I been
when I have not showered
when I have not spoken to no one
for thirteen days

heavenly heavenly heavenly
numbers on hand ripped legal pad paper
a vest in polycotton is asking
you remember don’t you
for the musket for the basket
and for some cream
I have never been so tempted
as I think I have been tempted
to make a concertina the shape of a gasket
with all of its reproductive value
fully entrenched how whatever
grows on one fallen
will fell another before long
I bleed onto the stairs
and then trays rush

there have been times
when you needed to race through traffic
run down the street hailing hailing
perhaps I’m an eruption too
I certainly am overtaken
by my idea of an uneventful morning
the idea of it being all over
can only remedy that by putting
construction paper blue tape
on the walls stepping back
reaping the walls
this happens when there’s no more
blood left you’ve used it all up
spit out everything 3/8 inch drill bit
take the man who helped me
home with me he’s in the squad now
a spree will suffice
a spree a spree come with me