Everyone wants to start a huge fire
in a forest, a museum. Everyone wants
to barge through a door marked Private,
everyone, no exceptions; even people
in a forest, a museum. Everyone wants
to cause a scene at a funeral, to yell at
everyone, no exceptions; even people
who can fight back. Everyone wants their mother
to cause a scene at a funeral, to yell at.
The heart wants to rip out the heart.
Who can fight back? Everyone wants their mother;
everyone wants a bed with a lid.
The heart wants to rip out the heart:
blood and noise and quiet and dust.
Everyone wants a bed with a lid
and time and television and lovers and
blood and noise and quiet and dust.
Wanting gets the heart to beat itself
and time and television and lovers and…
The list of what we want burns as we write it.
Wanting gets the heart to beat itself,
to barge through a door marked Private.
The list of what we want burns as we write it;
everyone starts to want a huge fire.