Expend and swell,
expend and swell,
alien lung
growing from my back
trembling in its strange socket
like a bird's wings smashed in and
flapping still.
You press your lips into me,
in all my savagery,
my malformation in the hands
of an inbred demigod.
You take me to your basement
and feed me moths and strings
tied to everything in the universe
blissful and stinging and
win me like a prize.
You show me where the bricks have
come loose in my walls and
I rebuild under
your direction and
look down from too tall heights in
adoration and worship for
the ground underneath the trees
where you live.
My eyes are
permanently adjusting
pupils re-birthed outward and then
slamming back into singular points
"like the universe," you told me.
You place my hand on it and say
"This is the universe,
this is what we are now,
this is the universe."
And you kiss me once before
I slip through the walls and
can't be seen.
You see me sometimes.
In between the walls.
You see me sometimes,
I'm in between the walls.
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