Status Updates From Calling a Wolf a Wolf

"give me an orgy of sleep // give me sleep from every angle // for years i stood in the semeny ginko staring at my hands // believing in afterlives // thinking one day id wake into // a new kind of body // like a fish suddenly breathing air through its eyes // pull a fisherman from frozen water or put a puppy in a christmas box // but its harder to remember stillness is also a prize " (page 42) this poem? b e a s t

“The lesson: it’s never too late to become a new thing, to rip the fur from your face and dive dimplefirst into the strange.”

"It’s hard to speak of something so gauche as ambition
while the whole wheezing mosaic chips away but let it be known
I do hope one day to be free of this body’s dry wood"

sometimes I am so ashamed of my sentience how little it matters
angels don’t care about humility
you shaved your head
spent eleven days half-starved in solitary
and not a single divine trumpet wept into song
now it’s lonely all over

I understand the hype

it’s slowly sort of making my soul feel bare