[there must be one thing you can’t have in order to be alive]

Jon-Michael Frank

there must be one thing you can’t have in order to be alive  

watching flowers open on youtube  

I mean, my life is wasted on my life 

requirement is simple  

it takes a wound to 

return to yourself  

the new sky  

is the same as the old one 

its achy maw  

its barbwire grip  

people are whatever they are next to 

that won’t remember them 

a dumb desert  

a broken open sign

whatever I love best

reminds me of something else