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show me something
you don’t hurry
and i’ll show
you love.

hands in dough
voices wrestling in the head,
that’s the way the world
keeps on happening.
be interested in it,
the highlighted passages
coalescing with a defiant
urge to be done with it already.

how might he perform
the acts of his life
without desire?

the word enthusiasm
originates from the greek
            eνθουσιασμός
            from ἐν and θεός
            and οὐσία,
meaning possessed
by [a] god's essence.

the purple book
with brown paper bag pages
sitting on his father’s shelf
as a child, taught him all
he ever needed to learn:
            be here now.

there’s no better feeling
than hearing a song,
            you know will mess
            with your organs,
for the first time.  
like the perfect friend
you’ve been needing to meet.

show me something
you don’t hurry
and i’ll show
you love.