"I think of how the person who needs the other person least
in a relationship
is the stronger member."
- Douglas Coupland
(_Shampoo Planet_)
simple
hauntings I
Never /even only she/ spoke my name
looking to those dreams (and surfacing
in
all kinds of /comfy,cozy,creams
and/
[middles])
sharply shaping images and
/ambitions/
forming memories
and (now) pasts
only interrupting this
"Hi Allen. Listen, I've been thinking about what you said about names
and how you think they have some power. But they don't. It's all
fiction. Whether I say his name more or he says my name more, it
means nothing. It's no spell, it's all just
Rumpelstiltskin..."