by Alexandra Gold
Feet off the dash
off the metal
cut loose cake
cut loose lyric
everything inventory
every inventory objects
feet on the dash
on the metal
recall the lullaby
recall the day
before the night
before the lullaby
compromise image for lyric
compromise cake for cake
relinquish the roof of control
control the inventory of objects
toggle remembrance switch on
will you join me for dinner?
jingle keys like love
jingle love like love
will you stay for breakfast?
will you stay for lunch?
we’re cutting a new slice
that did not exist before us
hot before breakfast
cold after lunch
stay forever feet over ice
preservation for the new
which has to be ours
like a heifer
splitting into two
smaller heifers splitting
into lyric’s inventory
like love everything is
on the everything
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Alexandra Gold writes in New York.