Okay Ultra
When you go to sleep, I go to work.
I slip myself into a suit and slide 800 milligrams
into their coffees, then watch their bathroom-tiled existences
turn marble and too illuminated.
My government is inside me, my motives classified
It’s you that I’m writing about;
even from me. But I can’t conceal myself from you
the only double agent
forever. One day when I finally break my cover
is the citizen who wants freedom
you’ll see the tattoos underneath my skin, you’ll see
without wanting to see the shadows
that I was an instrument all along,
which break the light in the gap
and I too was being played.
at the bottom of the door.
My life with you is a two-way mirror; I’ve watched you
kiss my reflection a hundred times. Every day I hear my name
said in so many ways that your screams when we make love
move nothing in me. Screams are just
more cups of tea to me,
or cups of boiling water.
When you go to sleep, I go to work.
I slip myself into a suit and slide 800 milligrams
into their coffees, then watch their bathroom-tiled existences
turn marble and too illuminated.
My government is inside me, my motives classified
It’s you that I’m writing about;
even from me. But I can’t conceal myself from you
the only double agent
forever. One day when I finally break my cover
is the citizen who wants freedom
you’ll see the tattoos underneath my skin, you’ll see
without wanting to see the shadows
that I was an instrument all along,
which break the light in the gap
and I too was being played.
at the bottom of the door.
My life with you is a two-way mirror; I’ve watched you
kiss my reflection a hundred times. Every day I hear my name
said in so many ways that your screams when we make love
move nothing in me. Screams are just
more cups of tea to me,
or cups of boiling water.
