Intimate Sonnet (revised)


daylight rhinoceroses
I flee to thy side

my back is broad
and pimply

I didn’t I wouldn’t I haven’t I might
open the zoo which cages delight

who are you
are we are
they are

these are the pronouns I engender

faint is the shadow that follows the lip
and limp lies the finger upon the tongue tip

if one times one is us
the aye-aye knows no abacus