the biological component.


the biological component.

rare to get very far in a book.
pick it up and read in bed,
and in this way fall asleep every night.

last thing she remembers is a jade plant in the window
leaves spilled down on foot vines.
you could eat them like jellybeans.

every night,
his eyes wander from my page and he sees his jade and sleeps,
wake up and its the same and love the vines in the sun.
he is more tangled up in those vines and these blankets
than the citizens want to admit.

have to acquiesce.
she picked the next one in her suffering,
saw and loved him in her suffering,
when he relieved her of her suffering
she ran back to her old lover and buried months in his arms,
o, she felt cured and wanted him
to want to want --