Go to a party so you can wear that dress
Buy a dress so you have to find a party
Dance with strangers and imagine that
the way they move reflects some deeper
part of them and then dance with more
strangers and notice the difference.
Write a poem that no one will read and
try really hard to make the line lengths
match even if you have to break the wo
rds in half, even if everything else is blurry.
And write – only if it is the steam chugging
out of your well-poisoned mouth and only
if it is a side effect of your fast-motion self
Write, only if you have to, only if you can find a way to stick out in the words.
Write, only if you find yourself a train and
only if the words have the power to pollute.