It all starts with some spontaneous flower as if flowers can just pop in out of thin air. I suppose it's nice to pretend that they can because growing them is a lot harder, what with all that water wasted and the effort and the heartbreak when something wilts, or just doesn't bloom.

You know, I watch myself in conversations
and I feel like I am all there, full bloom, watching
as she articulates a useless process of horticulture.
Look! I want to say, "Here's a flower, popped in,
out of nowhere, no water, no blossoming, just-
you know. Ready, and open, and all that."

But no one believes it. If it comes out of nowhere
with no care or effort, it's got to be a weed
extracted by the roots before it spreads:
A dandelion with rose ambitions.

But what are you working for? I'm right here,
waiting. How long do you need, for this?
Aren't we all looking for a flower
with wide open petals? Because we seem
to spend a lot of time forcing them back
to seeds, as if only then can we trust them.

Get me out of this flower show
I want to be everywhere
in full bloom; it's useless to pretend
I'm a seed.

-e.







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