Objects of Desire

Dear Reader,

I do not promise that you will find what you seek here.

I do not justify the choice of arrangement nor the selection of content

Of the words below

To An

Other.

This I know.

I long for.

In longing I approach and retreat like

Ocean waves lap and retract.

Do you feel (a)longing with me?

What is the thing

Feeling

State

or person

That I seek proximity to?

Sometime long ago

I must have misplaced the answer.

I brought a spare razor blade but not its handle.

Or else it is simply misplaced and

Laying

With the lint

In the dryer.

You may ask, Why do you bother?

You may exclaim, If you don’t know what you are looking for,

Your search will never cease!

You may sight, Ah, it is what it is.

And I may reply, Imagine that.

To no longer care,

To no longer bother,

To no longer want to know what It is not…

To surrender instead to what is

And to not need something else

Is to not net to want,

Is to not have the only Needed need.