if
I knock tenderly a human might answer, if I knock softly. such components where
we first disappear before we understand. such sensitive souls such addict fires
so much our belly aches. by backdrop or backwaters so inclined for clandestine
flame. by coals or firewood but never by surety or dependence. such social
thimbles, if to give partway, beneath struggle or war while bellicose towards
our mirrors. a woman cuts such self while a razor feels gentle. a man guzzles
raw liquor if but to vanish where he’s captive of insincerity. I tread deserts
so close to our cities I look for your face. I feel rotten or uncertain. I
listen more while I envelope another compass. such interior séance such
marvelous fright while it dawns upon us: our treasuries or mortalities while
fighting for immortality. books were scorched or burned where literature was at
war. those iron gates, seated so lowly, accustomed to flint-hearts. those cages
as so endearing where familiarity, despite trauma, is much more comforting than
newness. we seem so raw while nothing is more enduring where nothing is such
passion, parasite, or adverse pleasure. by taint leading to trance insomuch as
existence becomes fear. by cranes we carry by ropes we avoid or sheer
distrusts, for rivers have fretted or decayed. I dreamt of you in brighter days
while I needed intimacy. I went without such affection. it soon became normal
not participating in your beauty. I have consulted myself, with tender
knocking, where it isn’t time to suffer each other. such voltage lockdown, as
squabbling with bears, while skies hovered, watched, but never rebuked
treachery. if but to master our tongues such softer lights if but to exist—but
penalty for normalness, or penalty for highness, or penalty for turmoil,
depression, despite, if one is suicidal. by pure disgusts where freedom is a
verb or it’s nothing! such a poison tree, such a weeping bench, or such
societal atrophy. but yours is seashells or southern California while running
or uncaged so glorious into a penalty.
get wisdom. get
redemption. while we realize contradiction. (never take a person’s strength. if
so, replace it with power. —while indebtedness is measured by kindness.)
