SHRUNKEN VERSION

SHRUNKEN VERSION

shrink me
carve pieces off me
cut me
down to size

reduce me
condense me
down
  to single molecule

erase
   all that feels it has to burst
its boundaries, explode, expand
be liberating
be transformational

yes,
    slice the heart out
of all that stuff

kill all that is poet, poetic,
make the poem, the poetry
go suicide

once upon a time I clung
to the fiction
it was
    my purpose and meaning

now
I am far too old
for anything like this
                                 at all
                                 at all