primary bit of body
actually be body. Flesh
secondary. I have tolerated
can think of you fondly if after existed.
can touch the thought of your touch if
possibility were possible. Refuse
in self, rest
symbiosis of this skin’s priority.
self requires any
lacks the appropriate signatures.
as if the dog you killed actually cared about its killing.
the one last lick of bottle to say hello to yourself again.
boy playing a man explains his self by showing 8 x 10” photographs
of his childhood to the general public.
past its beginning
something like this:
maybe he was too afraid
fear to actually hold himself
to anything. Including
care too much or not at all are both really just the same person
standing in the same spot looking in different directions of the same
the other lesser known story of the man playing a boy shooting pool
with the rest of them knowing too much of himself to actually be his
had enough,” he stretched
patted his belly.
I say, “uncle,” what I really mean