Nothing is Stillness
the spaces between buildings feel like commas
if you’re not a writer bc you don’t think of writing like
a living, try living like a writing
try living like the world is commas, lines, and
semicolons,
try hearing tetrameter in your steps and iambs,
breaths and speeches, trips and writing, skips and
starting, breath and crying and always, rattling apart
because the commas shake you off and apart at the
seams, always tapping, tapping, falling
because tapping isn’t good enough when you’re
shaking your world apart like a manic vibrating energy
unable to start, unable to bend, not stopping, just
GOING and going and going and going, not stopping
'til it’s all gone
the spaces between buildings feel like commas
shakespeare feels like lungs of clean air
nothing is stillness, nothing is breathing
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