Terrible things I do to you

 

I put you in Iraq

Liquid mercury quivering

In your red palm

I pick you up with tweezers

Drop you in a beehive

I put you on the toilet

I steal away with your hearing

I give you back to your father the suicide

I crawl into your marsupial pouch

Eat the best parts of you

Chase you like a shadow through the burning city

I undress you a thousand years beyond naked

I bring your bones with me to work

I tattoo your secret name

On my breath

I order you inside my body

Make you look at what's left of yourself

Through my left eye

-- New York, January 3, 2008