I Would Like To

i would like to be a perfect one to be a Katherine the Great to be able to w a t ch the screen as i type but i am n ot i am unable to watch what i type for fear that it may be terri f ying that i would look at it and a smell of sedating lavender would overwhelm my goddamn system to see that a smell of y ou would overwhelm my system it is maddening that you ta ste like metal that your tongue is made of bronze- you are not the Athenian I once thought you were, for I am Homer and you are Alexander the Great we have different values because I am Homer and you are Alexander the Great though you believe you are Livy you believe you are Walt Whitman you believe you are something new you believe you are something wonderful and you w an t to believe such. and I want to believe such. I I will make you into a poet if that is what you wish. I will turn your bronze tongue into a paper one I will turn your blood to ink so when it is spilled in battle it is spilled on paper I will turn your iron thoughts to cloth I will turn your steely voice to the sound of a typewriter i will do whatever i must do in order to get you where you wish to be i will if only you would teach me to be a Spartan.