Eavesdropping
What’s the biggest number?
Twelve. Twelve is a big number.
Twelve isn't that big, my sister is twelve.
Twelve is old, huge. My mommy isn't even twelve.
My mommy won’t tell me how olds she is.
Twelve is a big number. I can’t count past twelve. That’s too much fingers.
Infinity is a big number.
What’s that?
Bigger than twelve.
What about infinitys plus two?
No. No. No. Infinitys the biggest.
What about twelve?
Eavesdropping
What’s the biggest number?
Twelve. Twelve is a big number.
Twelve isn't that big, my sister is twelve.
Twelve is old, huge. My mommy isn't even twelve.
My mommy won’t tell me how olds she is.
Twelve is a big number. I can’t count past twelve. That’s too much fingers.
Infinity is a big number.
What’s that?
Bigger than twelve.
What about infinitys plus two?
No. No. No. Infinitys the biggest.
What about twelve?
Consulting with Comets
I want to bite God’s lip,
(sinking my teeth into his lower one, slowly and then hard-- like Eve and the apple)
peer into His irises and ask why
we have to hurt? I’ll see His soul and speak
with His spirit and I’ll endure
until I know He does not
envy me.
Once,
yes just once
I climbed the constellations--
Andromeda to Virgo and back again
--and consulted with the comets.
I skipped over Saturn’s rings and sung
to the stars and the skies.
But no one answered, not even an echo.
All I grasped from the great beyond,
is that a girl that could gaze down
from the heavens and look upon Hell
is no girl at all, but instead--
a god.