I NEED SOMEONE - 1990
I need someone
to help me hold bits of paper together;
addresses, notes,
fragments of my life,
empty boxes from the last move,
bits of our lives;
I need someone
to help me put it all together,
to sit me down,
to hold me still,
to join severed arms and legs
into the man I never was;
I need a tranquil
destiny;
a dream
of no awakening.
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