I am in love with the girl in the mirror

Yesterday, I traced my hands below
Your cupid's bows and puckered your
Lips. I said that you pouted like
A fish.

In the morning, a man who was not you
Pulled my arms above my head and 
Said that I flowed with two
Pectoral fins.

Isn't it funny?

I am fragments of a love
Strewn across white-vignetted
Memories. I am a kiss and a
Dewdrop tear on a hurricane of faces
Both masculine and feminine,
Sharp-nosed and flat-faced,
White, brown, and black-
Fleshed,
All forgotten now.

When I say I am yours,
I am yours for as long as forever
Is a fleeting amount of sand
Dripping in a number-lined
Measure cup.

I swipe a nude-red stain
Off the mirror, and ask

How one can love
So little in
So much.




















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