Sometimes i dont know where is taking me

Sometimes there is no hand on my shoulder but my room, my apartment, my body are containers and I am thusly contained. How easy to forget the obvious. The walls, blankets, sunlight, your love. We walk through the frigid air toward a reconstructed temple, likely stolen , I say, and she looks at me. A rope keeps us from going further. Who are you texting? What question could she ask that wouldn't make me bristle?

I once called our fights a kind of dance in a poem I rightly tore up. So I go forward into what it might mean to struggle a few hours with the one who made me, whose dark I once lived inside. We step into the centuries between us and the vessels behind glass which once held water, grain, and now the silence of a light so gentle as to not damage the precious things. And sometimes I know I am having a feeling but I don't want to have a feeling so I close up like a book or a jacket or a sack which holds a body.

Don't mind me, I'll just be dead in here, you can drag me wherever you want, the body seems to say. You laugh like a little silver moon. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile.

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