Published on: 5/27/2015
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I am these words:
not in the banal sense
that they describe, define, confine
me;
nor in the sordid sense
of gory ink poured on the page like wine.
I am smudged
in the literal sense
from hand dragged across curve and line,
writing myself
beneath the sinister notice
of a frustrated student of literary analysis;
animated by inattention,
breathing until furious fingers
crush the page and
erase all signs of—