Also Known As
#Also Known As
Amazing how I can
Talk about you now
Without spitting epithets
Like broken teeth.
Can sign my name
The one you gave me
Without howling wild and
Feral glossolalia
At indifferent streetlamps.
How unpolluted I feel
In my own monogram
Without you in it.
A vase waits on my dresser
Arranged with a bouquet of sobriquets
I might choose from;
Today I am 'frogfajita' but
Tomorrow I might be 'salamander'
Or 'poetree' or 'bananagirl' or
Even 'hey baby'
And you can't stop me
From becoming any-one.
I am not an alias of myself
No not any longer.
And it only hurts a little.
More Poetry from Lana:
Posted Feb 9, 2016, 5:35 AM UTC
54