It is
difficult to be a chair
and be likeable
She can’t feel her arms
How does she
How does she read a book
Read a book
*

The house we went to
was not ours but we stayed
because it was sturdy and nobody
else was there
Most of the furniture looked fine
though there were still pieces inexplicable
to me and I liked
to take pictures of myself naked
We waited for raccoons
to reveal themselves in the cypress
proving that everyone has a home
like this and knows
about furniture
Art, how to decorate, and
History
From there we went
through each day as if
Thursday
and eventually stopped
at a new place like I said before
but hoping it would be better
All the houses look the same
I forget how to read
I used to say I miss you and now
I’m sorry I was so mean
and that you’re displeased with
my green curtains
I didn’t want this to happen
for this one reason
which is the chair told me
she whispered to a stranger
don’t turn around
I’m naked so of course
he did and they fell in love
*

Is anybody house?
Is anybody roof?
Is anybody window?
Is anybody wall?
Is anybody desk?
Is anybody chair?
Is anybody bed?
Is anybody lamp?
Is anybody clock?
*

And now you are leaving!
This place looks like an Apple Store!
Marry me!
I scratched and sniffed myself bare!
Sit down I decorated!
Over and over!
Watch me be filthy in a glass-walled house!
I might have come!
So I didn’t hear what you said!
My house is full of strangers!
But it’s so easy not to feel!
Trying to find an outlet!
I had two thoughts like two eggs!
I want to be perfect for you!
October took so long to get here!
 
 
Slushy
Cool cherry do you think about me?
When I bite my tongue it’s cherry
Crude childhood games
Fall and found us all
Spring
I blame her
The wife
That’s where we came from and
Our father’s age
Was entering heaven
Washing hands incessantly
Looking at you and there are openings
There are
Cherry
Keep quiet
My voice I see now
On the other side is garbled crow
Crows feet laugh lines power lines crow
And the cat who licked my lips
Your assumptions are interesting to me
I’m trying to come
Close my eyes and
Imagine you alone in a foreign place
I want to be overwhelmed
Lose for a moment
Nobody on the streets I like
The fantasy not the product
The time of day the light
And we’ll live in a big apartment
A house it snows
Photos overlap become
Cherry
It’s not that early it’s
Not that early to catch a train the ocean slams
Against my window this makes me nervous
There is space to hide everything
Works out I hope
If I’m never with I’ll never
Be without you
And all the fish rush up to
Nibble on my white ankles