Movement II / Remedies and Instructions

Plants Do Not Drink

Curiously,
I do not think
my garden drinks.

  • 09 in book order
  • 49 lines
  • 10 stanzas

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Curiously, I do not think my garden drinks.

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Osmosis Jones, my god—what a character.

03

I drink. I am drinking. I cannot sit without drinking, sucking up through water whatever I can get.

04

Locution is peculiar here. My legs move me to the bar, move me the wine, move the gin into me.

05

Locution is not just legs— I will drink if I am sitting. I will if I can use my phone to order someone to use legs to bring me something, please, to drink.

06

God forgive me. I went on a date today simply to justify the wine after the wine last Saturday in Helsinki— in the mall where the only gay bar is.

07

God forgive me. I wasted his time. I wasted his cheer. I wasted his willingness to meet someone, to say hello.

08

In the first few days, why is it that plants do not have to move to drink?

09

Why is it that in the last days they do? It seems unfair.

10

I have to move to eat, or to drink. I have no desire to eat. I am simply here to drink.