Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Code Switching

Automaton*
I do not need you to take care of me.
That is what my organs are for.
My heart beats, unprompted
sometimes, even, flipping upon itself.
How fortunate,

how

marvelous
I am to have such acrobatic innards.


Automaton(s)
Alive.
Like that time you took me to dinner
and laughed at my unease, at my
greenness. I’m certain
later
at the eagerness with which I threw it
all on the fire.

My, “Can I have one?”
the filling of two
quite
virgin lungs (I still
can’t catch my breath).

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