body

start to feel your gut organs pulsing uncomfortably
in damp darkness

from chomping and chugging pocketfulls of candy
your eyes

and then you


i guess what i'm saying is

what i'm saying is

answer with yes about what i know
the city makes you gravy
i
graduated college

was born
again

feel one thing harden and shut down
like a lung or a kidney

i guess my parents fucked once
or thought love was a thing you could find
and i

died one day
you might read
if words are still in my name

maybe i'll clone myself and say dear clone
please read my poetry
please love who i was

or i can know that what i say
is as important as what everyone says

then my poems are already being
and always have