dear critic

     

i'm not looking to adjust my words
                               to your general public


i wish the public                 to adjust
      to my words


hunger more
         starve less

dream more
         sleepless


      find themselves in the curve
        of
           my
metaphor


there is a lesson to learn from your criticism


and we all have sadness in our lives
my words need not be
one of them


i should rip off every piece of myself
ready the paper
           made palatable for public consumption
FDA approved


dear reader:
this is not a declaration of self
           just a question to the void


are you?
                yes
                     ah… me too


the ways
           of knowing

and unknowing
you