NO MORE NEEDY

fossil me gags on the remembered

am angle and am time dog-paddle

underpressure i swell like a puffer

underpressure i spill all my lung gunk

run along joggers or talk at me to me

about all the expanding a life can do

teach me to keep my hand down my throat

without feel without bleed without nothing

fool myself to grip my breathers rub dirt

into my beating blood pump taste the Nebr—

aska in me when in the shade or the sun

or swimming through a jay magma sky

the quiet void between mountains and

mountains or walking through the mud

to the banks of the Mississippi where i

repeat my repeating of what it means to

have something cut so deep through

the center of your always the way

this river seems to.

*collab w/ Amanda Huckins