Excuse me.
\nDo you know who I am?<\/p>\n
I am the one you invited here
\nto set your house on fire.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Perhaps you mistook me
\nfor the plumber
\nor a runaway bride
\nor your mother
\ncome to lull you
\nback to sleep<\/p>\n
or a monkey
\nin a bamboo cage
\nfor you to keep
\nas a pet.<\/p>\n
Perhaps you believed
\nI was the mail order
\njesus clown
\nyou sent away for
\nin a moment
\nof unrestrained impulse;<\/p>\n
or the glow-in-the-dark
\nfacsimile of god
\nnailed to a crucifix
\n(by rose petal hands),
\nand affixed
\nto your bedroom wall
\nto absolve your sins in the night.<\/p>\n
Or maybe
\nyou thought me
\na wind-up
\npoet doll
\nsent here\u00a0special
\nto blow smoke
\nand soothing sounds
\ninto your dreams
\nwhile you talked
\nin your sleep,
\nor to put behind glass
\non a nearby shelf,
\nwhere you could
\npush my belly button
\nand make me cry
\nreal tears
\non demand<\/p>\n
or rip off my head
\njust for fun
\nbecause
\nyou were tired
\nof listening
\nto my song;<\/p>\n
But that
\nmust have been
\na different dream.
\n———
\nThis is the part
\nwhere I speak
\nand you listen<\/p>\n
This is the part
\nwhere you feel
\nthe nails<\/p>\n
and I hold the hammer.<\/p>\n
This is the game
\nwith a new set of rules,<\/p>\n
the one where
\nyou finally learn<\/p>\n
I did not come here
\nfor your amusement
\nor your pleasure<\/p>\n
or for you to consume
\nand go home fat
\nand satisfied
\nhaving entertained
\nyour drunken friends.<\/p>\n
I came here
\nto show you
\nshades of blue
\nthe sky never imagined
\nand reds so deep,
\neven the setting sun
\nis in a jealous rage.<\/p>\n
I came here
\nto light myself
\non fire
\nin sympathy
\nwith falling trees;
\nand to show you
\nthe moon
\nfrom the perspective
\nof the stars,
\nthen swallow
\nthe rainbow
\nin living color,
\nwhile I rock you
\nto pieces,
\nand leave you
\nlying on your knees
\ngasping for air<\/p>\n
I came here
\nto introduce you
\nto layers of your soul
\nyou never knew
\nwere there,
\nand to take an ice pick
\nto your stone-cold heart,<\/p>\n
just before
\nI pray
\nyou open
\nin three dimension
\nand leave you
\nreaching for the moon
\nwith burning hands,<\/p>\n
having dreamed
\nyou wide awake
\nwith music
\nbetter than god.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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