Adding Subtracting
for T.L.C.

i.
don’t want anything from you
want to swallow you whole

hold you, take you apart,
put you together bit by bit

want to toy with you
toy of you, of us two

ii.
am I asking too much
expecting too much

dish, that, this
must not drop it
whatever’s in it

want to take you apart
sliced peaches

only inside me
you’ll be whole still

whole beets dug up
out of my garden
dirt upon them still


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
7:29 a.m. 26.01.08