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  1. Contents
  2. One
  3. Something softens me
  4. And a withering pear I can’t eat.
  5. Considering
  6. I have to live. There’s stuff inside of things.
  7. What is bread?
  8. In the dream
  9. I sleep in a room.
  10. In my nipple is an eye.
  11. I am in love.
  12. Dec 31, 2014
  13. Aquamarine and topaz
  14. Everywhere there are men, there are men
  15. When I leave here I don’t know where I am.
  16. Two
  17. I like it when we give the world to itself
  18. I can’t believe I agreed to go to work today.
  19. I fold in half
  20. One headline said 5 minutes early is on time;
  21. I am an angel but I respire.
  22. “The Bay Area”
  23. Advanced Adulthood
  24. What’s the big fucking deal about
  25. Today I could aspire but I want to nap
  26. Your yes, yes.
  27. Adornment is exaltation enacted.
  28. It’s Saturday. I meet you, get soft.
  29. I spread butter on the darkest rye
  30. My duty is to tend
  31. He thinks I should be glad because they
  32. His thumbs were
  33. Because I was being flown to Kelowna for a reading and he lives in Nelson
  34. Regardless
  35. Three
  36. In August I visited my Gran.
  37. Strong basic love
  38. Happy Cup
  39. I defer to you.
  40. Blood
  41. Rat vs. Lamb
  42. A beach.
  43. I was born and I lived
  44. I wore a mint-green Donna Karan suit in the Lincoln LS commercial.
  45. The landlord said he lost his phone.
  46. I want to walk the park with you
  47. Hi.
  48. I take a medicine.
  49. I decided that I was a planet and I was a planet.
  50. The crease
  51. I said no
  52. So I have a brand new set of markers
  53. Five
  54. I was a born a baby.
  55. Eighteen degrees Celsius Zagora No events Mostly cloudy
  56. The goat
  57. I cut my horns
  58. My anger is hope for my own righteousness.
  59. The coo of the common emerald dove is the sound of Venus.
  60. I have to live lest I die-live.
  61. It’s why I was born.
  62. Six
  63. I told you.
  64. How much of your body is your head.
  65. The trick to being funny by Aisha Sasha John.
  66. I couldn’t win with my brother because I was born.
  67. Thanks.
  68. I’ve seen stuff always.
  69. For you and all your siblings and friends and husbands or boyfriends.
  70. Seven
  71. I removed the snake ring.
  72. Pussy pain.
  73. The reassuring thing about life
  74. Psychic = Self-believer
  75. The year of being selfish. The year of being relaxed.
  76. I find the book.
  77. I get my power from pleasure. And I get my pleasure from pleasure, too.
  78. I’m on the back of something.
  79. I’m not dead.
  80. I’m not gonna die of love.
  81. I have to live. I’m married to love.
  82. Acknowledgements

Rubbing his back.

She said my breath smelled like ice cream.

We went to Golden Gate Park’s Botanical Garden and ate them.

And stretched on the lawn

Awaiting their arrival and then they came.

All the while we had excellent timing.

When she stretched her lower back on the grass I took

Photos in which her nose looks unlike it does actually.

I braided her whole entire head on the bench

And she let me

Saying

She felt as if she looked like

Felicia

From Friday.

They affected my hands such that I could arrive at the heat

Her hands emitted to a sensor in my own cold palm that was

Larger than touch.

She shook at me when I tried to

Help with the hoodie and I cried

Inside and late.

I cried in the night and morn

Because I was

Confused.

I met David Brazil. I bought The Ordinary.

Advanced Adulthood

I take a walk.

I order 3 tacos.

I order 2 tacos.

I take a walk.

What’s the big fucking deal about

******* anyway.

It’s empty there.

I didn’t see anything there.

Where is it?

Today I could aspire but I want to nap

And look for the pot I lost in the desk I found on the street.

Some people are interested in exploring the ways

Something is negotiated

In light of something else.

God bless them.

I have to fucking live.

My north node placement

Suggests I shouldn’t concern myself

With the thoughts or values

Of other people –

Which I understand to mean I mustn’t antagonize “people” in my poems

Feeling triumphant in

Disputes I begin and leave the crust of but

Eat the cheese.

I had a vision now.

It wasn’t a vision.

A man in a striped shirt stood in a line.

His hair looked like yours

So I thought of you.

Fuck I prolly should’ve messaged you back

After I asked for and you sent me that photo

Of your baby.

Your yes, yes.

Your no, nah.

Truth

Over evil.

I gotta go.

I gotta dream.

So that the Lord will

Find my finger.

Adornment is exaltation enacted.

I am an earring of the Lord.

It’s Saturday. I meet you, get soft.

I have to trust people

Or else I’m too busy.

I feel nothing but foolish

And also okay

Because what will happen is I will

Continue to live.

And then one day I’ll die.

I spread butter on the darkest rye

As if it’s cheese.

A turd of butter

Attaches to the pen with which I write

This. I wonder if it’s sanitary

To leave the ketchup outside all the time.

At night, even.

And also the hot sauce.

My duty is to tend

To the children I house

But I have hate in me.

I wake up.

It is a jealous dream.

The left side of my pussy

Hurts even.

He thinks I should be glad because they

Like the idea of Aisha. I am not the idea of Aisha.