never forever

the following is the word to describe a cookie when it is already chewed, salivated, and lobbed in your throat, blocking the word.

*

we are

whenever

we are

we are

wherever

we are

we are

whatever

we are

however

we are we

not much longer

*

my parents made me

how poor they did

i was broken blood vessels

and wet hair

so

i reinvented myself

after reinventing reinvention

and the i’s inside

now my parents say

they can no longer see the person they raised

but that is because

i made me me

to raise higher

to fly

to love

to join the infinite night

that made two stretch themselves

into another until another

will say one day

what have you made me

*

i have already

written the saddest lines

but they were made sadder yet

for no one read them

and soon

even i forgot what i had said