cool story bro
I thought
if I took
just a piece of this pill
you left
you left on this table
I was thinking
I might
And I did
I did
thinking of you
thinking by thinking
I might
think you back
Instead
I discovered
dyspnea, and
phantom adhesions, and
hematic energies and
tendons, tissues
splendid pressures
and every kind of subcutaneous rattling
the oscillations of the innermost ear
the vestibular memory of
my perfect efficacy at
not doing the things
the fifty-odd things
the ten thousand things
or any the things
I was thinking
I’d do
I thought
I’m awake
until I woke up
still in the bath
still under water
with water-aged fingers
and I think
some water
and gasping for air
and my body constricted
my energies, bored
and the tissues were sore
the humors were gone
and it was all gone
except water
and air
***
November 10, 2011
