Cravings #14

i hold sincerity in a poem
until i feel anxious about
the lying that when i claim
that this is a poem i don’t know
what i am saying look

a line break to distract
you from my own hunger
to write fifteen lines
of a piece that i have mapped
out to be fifteen lines

in a very large project
that took me years to prepare
& now that i so badly want
to be considered at all i jutted
my chin out to the end