Xenoglossia
in this poem i am not me
grammar be damned and i don’t mean
i is not me or some other
psedoprofundity
i mean
a poem usually has an i
and if there’s an i why not
a you or a she or a them
what else is an i for
i mean
this poem is not about me
these are not things i did
or what happened to me
or what i just overheard
i mean
this poem goes on its own
takes up life, love and beauty
proceeds toward sex, death and truth
and it’s got angle worms in it
for the fish