imagine seeing your friend
wearing priest clothes
helping people carry a body
down the street
imagine a religious community
choosing to remember you
by telling everyone the most
embarrassing shit about you
for centuries after you die
imagine a more believable
description of hell
imagine finding someone
who looks at you like tom hanks
looks at a person when he thinks
they’re related to jesus
imagine you’re john lennon
or john legend or just
a different john o.o lil jon
imagine you’re a hole
in a human donut
imagine your life
as a sticker on a street sign
imagine your life
as an organic adaptation of a film
lawyers and executives
have been wrangling over
since deep time
imagine wind sweeping
through your old home
for millennia
the occasional bird
then gradually larger and apparently
more inquisitive land animals
imagine all the ways
you’d like to be identified
spiraling out like galactic arms
from a center which is actual fate
yes fate was discovered
and contacted there was a raven
with a hot dog slice in its mouth
it had no beak just lips and teeth
all very unsettling
and overall unhelpful
imagine making out
with a raven
do not imagine
getting to second base
trust me
imagine that friend
who used to be dressed in priest clothes
is now dressed in ghost skin
and runs into a church
but the church people don’t think
he’s a naked ghost
so it’s not that kind of thing
it’s a kind of thing that’s upsetting
in a different way
imagine trying to explain
the way in which
that was upsetting for you
to a raven with lips and teeth
imagine someone you know
is standing in front of you
but when you say something
like do you remember
and you say second person’s name
the first person turns around
and has a third person’s face
imagine that but differently
because you’re doing it wrong
and i can’t figure out what’s so hard
about the thing i’m asking you to do
imagine you’re imagining what
i’m asking you to imagine o.o
imagine changing clocks
three times a year instead of twice
and in the same direction
imagine how far we’d get
imagine a better answer
imagine a dumber question
imagine beans in a stranger salad
imagine a hand applying pressure
to the wound on your body
keeping all the garbage inside
which is how you learned
you’re wounded and full of garbage
imagine people crowding
into the megalopolis
to love more profoundly
on motlier millions
imagine freshly ground coffee
freshlier dammit o.o
fleshly ground coffee
imagine the washing machine
baked you a cake
and instead of being like
wow what a special washing machine you are
you say i would also like some punch
you would have to be an animal to say that
you would have to be an animal to speak
or a plant
imagine a booth in an outback steakhouse
as humiliation as heavy as a star
starts folding you into the cushions
and it smells like all your insecurities
farted at the same time
and some peed a little bit
imagine being folded
so flat and tiny
only light
could have made you
imagine the voices
of your self-hate speech
in state-authorized protest
marching behind you with drums
whistles and megaphones
chanting in the first person
imagine the righteous indignation
imagine someone with kind eyes
slipping a scrappage program notice
into your mouth
imagine molecules and phenomena
ending every second you spend
looking at your feet
imagine being able to cry again
almost four years later
and the loss of everything that broke
feels truer than the having
imagine a truer way of holding
a person in searing pain
imagine everything that ended and broke
had its own music
and it’s got so quiet
even the crying is silent
imagine losing the unseeing
unspeaking rage
you could always count on
imagine the loneliness
imagine the lightness
imagine the injuries
and indignities that formed
in and around your eyes
express the way in which
you are beautiful now
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