Random (I)

living without whatever you claimed you can’t live without

(i)
you’re a fool for thinking
that you can’t live without
—air even. or a woman. or food.

(ii)
whatever left, now I am dead
to living without whatever.
I have learned to give love
from my bank of lack of it.

(iii)
do you see how the water
trusts itself? how it swerves
from so much absence of
colour into the shape of brokenheartedness?

(iv)
whatever

Younglan Talyoung