Water over Wind & imagine image of lake filled with water somehow sitting on top of wind more stagnant than air & imaginations can’t make this real but imagine wind an intricate maze of movement small fragments of atoms invisible but moving & water trying to move like invisible but stuck in thick drops until wind becomes knife cutting it into small pieces & cuts against our faces to sting & make eyes water drip off to become water above wind again until we can see.

 

After being perfect for so long, you decide that you’re tired of being great. You’re bored by smiles & grins & you look in the mirror & take your index finger & rearrange your cheekbones until your chin is parallel to your right eyebrow. You think this is beautiful & thinking of beauty you start to smile & so you place your ring finger into your mouth & stretch it out to touch the mirror & of course this isn’t possible but I know I’m sure that you feel this way much too often.

 

Jack & Jill walking down the hill & the pail of water so full & so heavy & Jack & Jill they’re both holding on tight to the handle & Jack saying It’s too heavy I think I’m going to drop it & Jill saying Hold on tight Jack I can’t carry this alone & Jack saying But it’s so heavy & Jack saying I’m sorry to this to you Jill & Jack letting go & the pail so full of water spilling into the valley between the hills & there being a lake now to swim in & Jill doesn’t know how to swim.

 

& Father saying to me that it isn’t enough that to be good isn’t enough that I must be great that I must excel beyond all others that I look different & the people from our country our country of heat a country I can hardly call my own but Father saying that our people our heated people that we can shit on & we aren’t respected & it’s my duty to exceed expectations that I must prove to others that I am worthy because really it was all just about fitting in & Father wanting me to fit in

& little poodle with specks of sparkles everywhere & in her fur tangled & all over the carpet but mostly it’s in her eyes stuck in her eyes & little girl seeing this starting to cry & little girl with little fingers removing.

Exceed: the movement from one point to another in an easterly or northerly direction; for it to be considered an exceed, it must contain at least two hop-scotches & three successes in the capitalist sense of the word.

Great: a woman sleeping tightly through noisy silence; a woman stopping to briefly adjust her intestines because the longer one wound its way around her cerebellum, causing her ear drums to pop often to burst.

Little girl with her little dog her little poodle just like her & little & little girl wanting her little poodle to be more beautiful than she was & little girl wanting her little poodle to dazzle & she pouring glitter everywhere.