Literature
household objects i imagine myself as
i. a candle. perhaps
vanilla - everyone is mostly okay
with vanilla, it's no one's absolute favorite,
but it's pretty much always
okay. i would like to be
pretty much always okay. being okay
is a novel concept to me. i could write a book
of all the times i have wished to be okay,
but it would be a rather sad book
and i'm not sure anyone would read it.
i'm not even sure i would read it.
so i'll stick to being a candle,
the kind you put up on a a shelf
and never light
and that's okay.
ii. a napkin. great
for cleaning up your messes,
then easily discarded,
forgotten about. i would preferably
be the kind with pretty patterns,
but as long as i