you will come
into the desert
to know me

you will touch me like a stranger
as many strokes
as many surfaces

as many names
as many hungry palms
as your servant can carry

so empty this
your lick across the burning sand
electricity of my thirst

//

Phaedrus: (as Lysias, cont.)

you will come (hekein)
into difference (diaphora)
with them

// 232δ

ἥξεις αὐτοῖς εἰς διαφοράν

//

red (palm) sugar

you will come
into the dessert
to taste them

you will eat fried plantains
ripened until soft and sweet
crunchy with red sugar

too hot for wasted time
i almost burn my tongue
flesh tender and yellow

greasy fingers with coconut
oil and sticky lips
but did you really

//

iced kepo

iced kepo is freshly-squeezed
orange juice with just-cracked
coconut water over ice

on a hot
day before the rain
comes

maybe the traffics religion is
theres something superficial
about s-e-x

//

(kepo also means gossip)

//

🌔

//