a misremembered Joanna Newsom song

The world is like one of those minimalist watches with no numbers on it
like, what time is it?
fuck you, I’m Swedish

The world is like the youtuber I watch because she kinda reminds me of you:
mostly fine, but then all of a sudden I’m supposed to believe The Incredibles 2 was good?

The world is like what I used to think the world was like
but sarcastically

You made a monkey out of me
which is to say
you reminded me of the fundamental untenability of the human/nature dichotomy

I made a beeline to you
which is to say
I flailed around in dumbass loops based on the limited information of my olfactory glands

Together we make a misremembered Joanna Newsom song
Together we make a mistake.
Together we make a legal doublet
like ‘aid and abet’
or ‘null and void’
two hot-shot detectives who play by our own rules
in the cold vacuum of space

When you speak,
I feel like I can hear the rocks scraping inside you
I can hear the scissors slicing each of your breaths in half
I hear the cliff kneeling to the sea

You think there’s something rotten at the core of you, but I know there’s just bird
so for the love of everything make a nest of me
fuck me up with twigs and shit
bend my limbs into something useful, I can take it

I’m just waiting
with the patience of paper
for you to write your real name