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i want
i want
i want
(what do i want?)
i want to open my mouth until my jaw
c r a c k s
and swallow the world
and all that lies within it
(the butterflies and butter knives and rivers and
mountains and moss and rotted logs and new
green shoots and planks of wood and deep sea
creatures and the smallest little mice )
or maybe just you
or maybe just both of us
or maybe only
me
in all my poems i say,
does this make sense?
(i want to know if
the spell is working)
i want it to all be so
different
than it is
i want to live a whole new life
i want to move to another city
i want to feel my bones melt
and stretch my skin easily
into all that could be
i want to become
i want to get further away from you
so that i can get closer to you
how can i rearrange all of the world
to suit my wants?
(and even if i took it inside of me,
even when i take you inside of me,
it is still the unknown
just lodged within my confines)
and what other choice do i have?
because what other way is there
to make a life?
to build day
upon day
upon day
upon day?