picture of David doing physical therapy #2

for weeks / in evenings / at kitchen tables // you practiced how it would feel to be sacred

self-portrait, bad_french

picture of David doing physical therapy #2

for weeks        in evenings        at kitchen tables
you practiced how it would feel to be sacred
dancing the still choreography of reclamation
hands rooting your wandering neck to its chest
like the dead might repose if they were half as lovely
or did I mean lonely and is there really much difference

all art must be god        I stared and thought
how easy it is to forget a man’s nakedness

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I’m doing a good job. You’re doing a good job.

-bad_french