this room and everything in it: love poem #3 ›
1 i will put a bee under your bed
2 every day for a year
3 so you do not perceive the increase
4 of bees under your bed
5 and become unconsciously accustomed to their activity
6 which at its culmination
a. (364 bees)
7 will be substantial
8 you will lay down over a large, undulating field
9 of meticulous noise
a. their dark purr will comfort you
b. you will require their delicate sludge to sleep
10 until i sneak
a. secretly
11 into your bed
12 and take away the bees
13 then you will sense a disturbance in your slumber
a. the solitude of the night will pierce your mind
like a piercing mind-knife of solitude
14 and you will cry and sweat
15 and produce other sad fluids in the night
16 and roam the earth in distress
17 until,
a. one day
18 we finally meet
19 and i say
20 i am the man you’ve been searching for
21 all your life
22 and you say who the hell do you think you are
a. you are distressed, i forgive you
23 and i say
24 i’m the man
25 with all the bees under his bed
James Schiller(Source: )
(via fishturnpink)
