today smells like clichés
and overplayed music
and how I’m
all
alone
and temporary soul-
shedding my skin is de
taching like foggy day
clouds rolling off leaving
me naked my
craving sketched in
the dirt vague
outlines in
the mist signals
of the scientific look
I can prove my
hypothesis that buildings
have edges and I’ve
got legs and I can
leap
so leave me be
I’m not here trying
to make you understand
or even to make you
mine but the way
those lights look across
the water I’m reading it
as distress signals
right now tastes
like things I’m keeping
pressed under tongues
letting them live
between teeth names
of songs with only
lyrics no words
and I can’t believe it’s still
you that I want to be
up to my ears in to feel
you like my ribs having a bird
cage in me I like listening
to songs I’ve never
heard before
I’m alone I’m alone
feels anonymous signed
with a flourish and maybe
I’m all sprinter’s heartrate
and testing theories and
thinking it’s funny
to shatter dishes maybe
I’m even pretty but
you don’t seem
to care let me
know when I
strike your fancy
