As/Is







5.14.2005


Leon

his name
is
floppy clownface flapping
noodle-jointed around the
streets driven by (exhale) you
and (inhale) me that's his
locomotion the breath of
strangers his name
is
a fragile crackle into
my telephone handset I'm
blushing the blood in
my cheeks is named after
him
how do I explain ? if he
doesn't repair his trousers the
earth might eat him but I'm
not his mother although
there
is part of him (not his pants) that
would happily take residence in
me; all that free placenta.
tasty.