Monday, July 26, 1993

the extra part cannot be explained

I am wrong.

And knowing punishment, I have ordered my dreams in files of

Cannot Have and Will Not Be.

We all look for sleep here,

soothing ourselves to slumber with our hipbone

cradled in our palm.

I am, gently.

So soft am I being that my words

diffuse like smoky breath in the cold.

Transparent so I can take note

of the mistakes in the machinery.

My parts strive for the effortless grace

of movement and gleaming in light.

I am wasting.

 And the soft petals of blue night

folded around my memory unfurl to show

moments in which I was not me

and then was perfect instead.

It has disrupted the smooth mechanisms of my thought

slowed the gears of my dreaming.

 

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