it bothers me
you're a story thief
and traipse along parasitically
I can't mind the question mark.
It's a shadow with more than twenty years' history.
don't try to gift me
with relatives after
a sifting through pasts
still comes up blank
If you can choose the convenient,
I'll choose to be an artifact:
dusty icon from dead language
village of vanished people
sliver of petrified wood in yr eye
