As/Is







1.22.2004


nitelife

i don't see you
through the
ghosts we've
shaken from
the walls in

this room.

or, rather, we
wake them when

you take my finger
and trace
the

curve of my soft and ridgeless fingernail.

(baby, baby, baby pink
curve, says the girl with the red
hair, blue shirt,
i steal away to her
when you're not
here.)

"i am
always
serious."

"i
don't
believe
you."

it's not language
we
speak

when we

fix each
other solid

in the fog of
ghosts,

unhappy ghosts, they
speak by
guiding my hand across
your chest.