Adam is adam is Adam is
I dated you both at the same time:
Adam the taxonomist
Adam the expelled
I dated you both at the same time in order to know the difference
I slept in your beds
and ate your cereal in the middle of the night
one of you was sleeping
one of you walked
into your sleep
Adam the signified
Adam the significant
I remember the night adam pounded
on my door and adam
was in his car half a mile from my house
Adam with the full beard
Adam with the tinted glasses
I panicked
Do you want to write? Do you want to
fold a thing up to be another thing
getting anything to be inside anything
I wore your jackets around your houses
Adam wool blazer
Adam faded blue hoodie
It was significant
It was a reference to
the hole in the doughnut the apple in the dumpling
Adam mechanic
Adam pallbearer
I held your names before your bodies as long as I could
Adam the quiet
Adam the quisling
I held your names out, in front of your bodies,
and made you dance toward them
Adam
adam
Adam
adam
dancing like any
thing wanting
its shape back
Adam the objective
Adam the continuous
I dated you both at the same time
to form a whole idea
from parts
the picture
Adam of desire
Adam of black Fridays
I wanted to write:
Adam,
remember a piano bench under the weight of two human bodies
a tree branch under the nest of a swallow
to gain perception
see Adam,
I had a life outside the garden
(perspective)
I wrote apples are oranges
I knew
how many adams
does it take
to empty the trash
unclog the drain
Adam I remember adam
pointing to your
self which is exactly
the same
as pointing to anything at all
I suppose
I wanted to write
the love of naming
is lost on
adam,
the love of making
in a system is which
name
will you take to bed
which noun
makes you happier
