I AM NOT ALONE
I have three gold-breasted birds in a tree
I have this tree
I think it is dogwood
The blossoms are new and young
So yellow-green sort of
There are many slow wasps at every open window
I can hear my neighbors moving
Or leaving to go out
Or fixing to leave
No one I truly love is dead
Exceptions: Grandma Mary, Frank O'Hara, Whitney Houston, Justin,
California, my geranium but even so, Gertrude Stein, my old dog
Murphy, I'll have to think about this some more
The kitchen floor has all sorts of provocative crumbs
(sometimes I eat them and think I didn't cook that)
I can really make myself orgasm
Now it sounds as though I am very alone
Oh wow, a great carnelian-colored bird just came to the tree
You see, I am not alone
Birds and insects and hairy men from the internet come for me
A few of each, respectively
I have this tree
I think it is dogwood
The blossoms are new and young
So yellow-green sort of
There are many slow wasps at every open window
I can hear my neighbors moving
Or leaving to go out
Or fixing to leave
No one I truly love is dead
Exceptions: Grandma Mary, Frank O'Hara, Whitney Houston, Justin,
California, my geranium but even so, Gertrude Stein, my old dog
Murphy, I'll have to think about this some more
The kitchen floor has all sorts of provocative crumbs
(sometimes I eat them and think I didn't cook that)
I can really make myself orgasm
Now it sounds as though I am very alone
Oh wow, a great carnelian-colored bird just came to the tree
You see, I am not alone
Birds and insects and hairy men from the internet come for me
A few of each, respectively
HOW DO YOU HONOR YR LIFE
Why stay on earth
I mean, it is hard. Earth is
Even if y're only here for the free samples
But jelly beans are a trap
Costco is a fake mountain you climb
Imported cheese is fine but then like
Not as smelly?
Has anyone in the history of the world
Cried out in the aisle of microwaveables
Over the beeping pallet jacks
Please lord let us
Agonize in the pleasure resistance lends!
I invite you or any thing to pierce this flabby membrane
Everyday I'm on Facebook waiting
For the correct Event invitation
To the Event to which my new future
sex partner has expressed interest
hashtag lifeeventhorizon
But somehow it stays away
My blue eyes stay blue or however you want to say sad
Behind their heavy half-and-half lids I sit
I do not selfie
Instead, I try to stop feeling like a person
I mean, it is hard. Earth is
Even if y're only here for the free samples
But jelly beans are a trap
Costco is a fake mountain you climb
Imported cheese is fine but then like
Not as smelly?
Has anyone in the history of the world
Cried out in the aisle of microwaveables
Over the beeping pallet jacks
Please lord let us
Agonize in the pleasure resistance lends!
I invite you or any thing to pierce this flabby membrane
Everyday I'm on Facebook waiting
For the correct Event invitation
To the Event to which my new future
sex partner has expressed interest
hashtag lifeeventhorizon
But somehow it stays away
My blue eyes stay blue or however you want to say sad
Behind their heavy half-and-half lids I sit
I do not selfie
Instead, I try to stop feeling like a person
You can follow CANDYSTORE O. MCCRITTER on Instagram @agaywhitemale. She / he / it was born and raised in San Jose, CA and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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