nathanael.ink

and if I write a poem that gets famous
I will say to Judah
that we did it
though it took us
two lifetimes to do it
and a human sacrifice
to do it
still
I am certain he will know
from whatever place he went
that he too moved my pen
and that his mind still inhabits mine
and that when I see him again
he will not be jealous of any success
because he will know
as I know now
that he wrote it
in the same way anyone
writes anything
when the words are just bleeding out of them
onto paper
or onto some inky silver computer screen
one can almost never tell
if I had the thought
or if the thought had me