wormfood

i betraying my tendency to limp around sea-lipped confessions everytime your shadow slumps slumberish on my applecore skin i have to mumble lisply whistle-short-breath i am wormfood in some headspace you don’t occupy by a miracle exception i am not with flesh gummy gelatin stretch chew my arm to scratch your dead teeth and settle your stomach ii insides biology-textbook flashy neon nervous notice me keep away that’s poison nature is a funny thing really i am not you are everything i am not you are everything i am not they will eat you the same iii - iv i spent my childhood summers by a body of water always no matter how different they burnt my eyeballs and what different shades of red never once left without claiming a handful of seashells and stones locks of kelps hairful i’ll-keep-you-behind-my-ear-ful with some table salt anytime i want to remember a sensation know i will crave a retingle i’ll snag a leaf fallen on the ground maybe it even fell the exact same moment we hugged as lousy closure as remind me again why did we wait so long for this collecting neural connections as sentiment that’s why it’s so bizarre to me that stevens placed a jar in tennessee instead of taking a jar of tennessee with him like it’s so bizarre to me to visualise an empty jar just on the dirt and not a jar full of dirt in a backpack i thought i understood the urge to leave something behind too well v and i love you even more for it ... created by Gamze S. Saymaz in collaboration with bodyinperform, as part of project "Liber de Causis" designed and managed by Ayça Ceylan & executed by Serra Rodoplu ...