dear poetry, otherwise it escapes

                                           (Unica Zürn)

dear poetry,

read a poem to me in whispers at a crowded bar, the part of my life that does not fit, it was crazy to fall in love but harder to keep our tongues in place, let's talk about the way you speak and are spoken to, the holographic mind that palimpsests every other on top of you, every gesture a cascade of where i remember most traveled, land to seascape a wanting, let's talk about shame rooted so deep in the consciousness of beings and what our human bodies have done to other human bodies and how some of us keep thinking we can escape that ancestry and how do we forgive ourselves and how to not seed hate in us that we call other people or why don't i know what lies between us, how many times in your life have you realized it was you that stole your happiness, snatched it from your lips at tasting and drove yourself back into that cave of doubt, oh we plenty in fear, watch the fall and what is it about the folding of time that makes you nervous, my heart made lonely grows weary, i fear there's not enough of anyone to keep me planted. & you, what are you afraid of.