And I’m asking you to hold me just like the morning paper.

Pinched between your pointer, your index and your thumb. It’s a semi-automatic, believers are ecstatic. You see the way they cling, the cold metalic sting. I’m living in a coma for Donna DeVorona, this harness made of hopes, the lovers on the ropes. 

Nun is to church as the parrot is the perch, and my heart’s

wide

o

pen,

truuu——ly.