23. When a Certain Defintion of Death

            I am certain that you will

            look my way when

            my breath has ceased to

            circle and my eyes

            no longer blink so rapidly

            and my heart beats

            more rhythmically

but do you see

I’ll be too

dead to

appreciate it?

You’re waiting for me to turn into

a person

and you’ll just disappoint

yourself with how

you define it

            and I’d laugh

but it kills me, so it isn’t funny.

22. No One Controls

I love how you said

you were in control and as

soon as the words

had flown from your

mouth, you

reconsidered

their meaning.

It’s just so terribly

funny (at least to me) how

people say

things they not

only don’t mean

but don’t even know the

meaning of.

21. Covalent Bond

These are covalent bonds that

make us less of

two people together and more

of a strict unity, as

an entity sharing the atoms each

member needs most

and you wanted to break it to

become something fractured

and made of hydrogen?

20. Newness

What a weird morning to

be alive, to remember that I

exist and so does the sky and to

remember that it’s the

blanket of everything

I’ve ever seen

and then I have to remember that

the sky is new today

and so is the breath in my body

18. Anything that Lasts

“last” is a

relative term

(relative to what

goes                 on

            around

            it.)

            the “last” time

we       were                we

was a long, long

time ago

but maybe not long if

your

ambition

to bring it back is

high

            “last” one to the repetition

            is a

            lost

                        one

                                    one

                                                one