Begin Again

Use the backs of eyelids

To draw on pin-up hybrids

Mutating fetish

The space where we can relish

In tendency surrender

Vividity uncensored

Does saying lots of big words

Make me into a big girl?

Irises in bloom

I built a world inside my room

Distractions are rewarded

For being less than sordid

Fingertips in dimples

Making ourselves simple

Scare the babysitter

Weeding out the quitter

Slip into my black book

Written by a dirty look

There’s a moose doing tai-chi

On a tub of Listerine

Electric tennis

Stark naked with my dentist

In a bath of liquid hydrogen

This overflowing fountain pen

Begins again and again

Irises in bloom

I built a world inside my room

Could have kept my mouth shut

Let this be the part I stay in-line

But I’ve really never been that kind

If I lie for long enough

A lie becomes what truth is made of

Then it tastes like cement

But my bedroom is a soup of melted ice cream

Which without there’s nothing else

With it I love myself

With it I hate myself

With it I am myself

Irises are wilting

Then tomorrow they begin again

Irises (and again) are wilting (and again)

Then tomorrow they begin