Teach me how to use your sweatshirt
while I unravel it around a spool.
Tell me how to keep time
as I destroy the second hand.
Help me memorize these words;
it is the only way to catch them.
Teach me how to speak these words
I love but cannot touch to use.
Impress my hand upon your face
while I etch you in my memory.
Teach me how to word the eyes
I hold only in their moment.
I do not care to know things.
I care to know conceptions.
I care to know you.
You fail to misunderstand.
