Weighting On Sir Real (It Was The Butler, In The Lounge, With A Broken Picture Frame)
Curling wicks of candles, caked in colored wax.
Count them to your lucky number;
13 eyelash strings, with one dust-deadened wish
scraped in saliva and finger oils on a window.
Your elbow to the sill, paw-prints present
from that internal beast in repose,
his cage lined out in stomach-skin folds.
A noose around a bottle neck.
Hoist up addictions and premonitions
on a fist-thick twine to skies.
Teach me like the string you taut.
