giant, like a child eyeing a tree he wants to climb, I have examined you. elegant slender limbs embrace a space made for me and leave me marveling. my soul flies, dancing across a sea of skin so soft,

I celebrate my ugliness this morning, ugliness clings like a loathsome slug. head, pillow-tossed and wild. eyes, cadaverous and strange. skin, pale, seeming bloodless. clothes, rumpled and unclean. my

sleeping why bother me now when my sleeping is so sound go where you came from boomerang careful what you say words can be like boomerangs they come back at you pushover don’t say yes so much no one likes