Wheat I/Wheat II

My hand broke this morning

I cannot choke chickens

Hillbilly hand fish

Or kill fucking lions

Lions, in the coliseum

The bar

Fed to the lions like the gladiators

But skinny

Skinny gladiators without armor

Without

Will

Without

Death

Skinny fucking gladiators in skinny fucking jeans

Cutting lions with pens and paper

Cutting lions with…. Nooks?

Fuck

       I have lost weight

From Cancer

From feeding my keeper

Feeding my zoo keeper

The crowds at this coliseum

This bar

This keeper is a fucking lion

A killer

In a Hawaiian shirt

A fucking killer

Like Paul

Fucking Paul

A fucking Lion in a bare man’s feet

The bare feet of men

Bare bones

Bear chested

“Where are the gladiators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Fuckin killin it man

I’m killin it man

I am a goddamn gladiator

A goddamn killer

A goddamn fool
A bare man
Dirt from bare men

From their feet

From between the toes of time

Sand

Grit

And shit
I have cancer

A,

Cancer

From my keeper

My killer

My feet

My Bear

From my chest

My dirt

My skinny

Fuck

From Paul maybe

Or that goddamn Hawaiian shirt

Or the crowds who are killing it, 

Man

Killin Man

Killin 

Me

And my Lions
I am a lion
I am teeth and flesh and noise
I am bone
I am in hiding
I am nothing
Until I am
Sound
I am sight
I am sick
and in your throat
I am Jesus
I am wood
I am steel
I am hanging
Rope
Bodies
And ghosts
I am Batman
And guns
I am guns
And a show
I am dead
I am the third day
I am a stone
I am stoned
I was stoned
I am a woman
Before a man
Before the apple
I am the apple
I am touch
and tit
Between the sheets
Off the books
I am a fucking gladiator
Going home
Going places
Going, Going, Gone
I am History
a Phantom
I am a phantasm
An orgasm
I am dreaming
I am Jack
I am Jackin Off
Gettin it done
I am a mess
I am drunk
I am broken
I am a gladiator
A lion
A pool of blood
I am run out
I am strung out
I am fight
I am tight
I am unstrung
unsung
I am in
I am her
I am in her
I am in and out
I am outta here
I am a minute
I am a man
I am a minute, man
I am lost
I am ink
I am this poem
I am this poem
I am fighting
This poem

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