Ashlea Senft Poet I do not know?

Grow Up

faithful + libidinal
misbehavior is alien
one above is inside me
spitting it out is nauseating
a withdrawal from swallowing
from something I once did I once
I said, I never did at all, I never did at

kneel only for aim do not enrich 
yourself, keep cathexis in the cathedral
crucifix your eyes on don’t be cross don’t

obsess but be obsessive it plays inside me wrong
it’s wrong repress rep re 
                                   you’ll grow but not up, never
up or downtown you’ll be found and be wrung and the
latter is always Eros making you fall into a trap so you’ll
reach that rung late

to exist is to choose, make your choice choose don’t lose
your faith but bottle up libido, bottle up til you are old enough
to drink it, til you are old enough to exist, cough it out now cough

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