Every day, I am a drunk.
I wake up drunk and I go to sleep drunk.
I drink like butter melts.

Every day I think about
sewing us cardigans
and putting appliques on them.
Appliques of flowers and carnage
on pink cardigans and brown.
About bamboo, I think about bamboo and scream
at my neurons,
"why haven't you planted any bamboo yet?!"
When the shoots finally dry, they will whip
like foils. What will slide down them?
I'm angry at my own laziness.

I consider filling my body
with the fat seeds of bird's nest bottle gourds.
Every ventricle, every capillary.
Growing into the halo of the moon
straight from the gourds in my mitochondria.

And the unknown persons
who have slipped their nanotechnology
into the base of your spine,
where robots will drill out your fingers
forever, even when I am immune.
I think about what we wasted elsewhere,
and how it is okay.
And the slide of your neck.

The taste of bread
is left over in me, after months
or perhaps a year.
The way fresh bread stretches a little as you pull it apart.
The way, in butter, it is chewy.
That's gluten. The thing that makes bread good
bores holes in my body.

What are the due dates
for my nerves? What to return?
Was that book mine, or his?
Which am I going to have to pay for,
will I have to pay for all of it? Every last
hesitant finger I begged to turn the page?

I wonder to myself
if the passengers in first class
like to watch the economy class passengers board
after them, is it a part
of what you pay for,
this?

-Tay

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