giants raising giants

when I was little

I thought I wanted to be big

like my father

who I looked up to

because he was powerful

and strong

and handy

with a belt

against my back

so that then

when I was a giant

who gorged

I could show him

what it meant to be little,

but I suppose

he already knew

and

that’s why he did

what he did

and I did what he did

later on

for I had grown strong

and powerful

and handy

and I saw others

like me

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my love,

i’m afraid of

my love

and how

i live

off love

sinking

sweating

stinking

love

how i’m

consumed and subsumed

by love

always assuming love

how i keep love

by steeping love

and completing love

with complete love

how I transpire love

to conspire love

how my love loves love

and how i love it

by baking love

waking love

and making love,

my love