When I do the dishes I think too much.
I think of the way objects accumulate as a kind of representation
of an individual mind.

A projection of my American intellect.
Intellect that feasted until the whole brain
moved into decline,

until it stopped forever
its fanatical growth
and settled down at twenty-three

to a permanent size.
Now my intelligence is a line of hieroglyphs,
a blouse fluttering.

I am barely able

to breathe. I cannot appreciate
rain on my bike. Or stand

on a balcony for too long
without throwing something off of it. My mind
walks slowly across the abyss.

My mind thinks of itself as a shipwreck.
My intellect is like a grist of bees

surrounding buffalo
in secluded forest.

My mind rides hard with horses
under a sky and moon
that issue chromatic variants of white.

My mind
finishes you. Love’s cigarette lit
in love’s one free hand reading you a poem

that begins: must then all humans love like this?

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