BEAUTIFUL FAULT

Let’s say I am significant & this,how this leads to all possibilitiesinside & outside the skull—this too,a form of logic & factof imagination, as imagining itself intofact—we imagineourselves every moment; Icreate I; how we find ourselvesin space of each other; howa page waitson tiptoes, on edges forour participation. Do you feelattention in these inadequatestrokes of language? Foundationsmatter. A lack defines onlyrelative to something other; I amsomething other & I love youregardless of the , my vagina , you slashedwords at my body, a gameyou thought to play me to pock meto shut me up by gouge& in the shower, I’d pickat the holes your wordscarved from me, place eachscab on my tongue & spit it out;each scab torn to deepen the scar—I wanted to rememberin the mulberry treesmy brother taught mescars are wounds that bear memories,gifts of resistance; he squintedin use of the word ; what he meant wasit’s not my faultthat someone hates me before knowingI exist; what he meant wasa fault exists in the vault of everywhat he meant wasif we fracture a system long enoughour voices builda neoteric systemwith our voices inside;what he meant was the lived faultsof me gather year over year& make me whole & love me& make me whole& love me; what he meant waswe conceive ourselves first—fact& tailor the world to hear us,tailor the world.