A light bulb with legs;
"follow me," and off we go
to the side world. Where:

The snooty woman
does not condemn
my geography skills;
the buisiness men
do not say: "Oh"
when I mention art;
in fact, she [this light]
takes me where:

There are no people
besides her, and me;
inside a tent, made
of this blanket held up
by your naked back.

I've postponed real living
for five years when you left;
slowly they dissasembled you
[oh, but I'm careful, I know
it was you who let them;
you, who dissassembled
yourself:] into not light
but mere glass and metal
shining back without heat
glowing only from projections
cast out by my eyes.

Dinner with you will be
a special kind of hell:
like talking to the dead.
I would live twice for you,
if only you wouldn't die
for something so trivial
as the rest of the world.

I used to wait. Now?
I will move, slowed
by the weight
of your corpse.

-e.





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