As/Is







8.21.2008


sleeping with the narcissist

unequal to
sleeping with yourself

unequal to being
by yourself

unequal to having
been breastfed at least once

unequal to salvation
half a time

unequal to
brevity's bereft someplace

unequal to communion
invented by and for the real thing

unequal to a curly summer
standing for life phased slowly in

unequal to new(ly minted)
object which you are despite