I Do Everything I'm Told

by Megan Fernandes

You can walk off most anything.

Sorry, but I’m like this in winter.

the kind where you know your executioner is coming

I know how much you dig genius and exceptions. And someone who breaks a rule to love you.

I fall too

You are old and everything matters.

I castI kill we drag I loveyou can’t

You don’t believe in bodies. Everyone is dust, condensed by circumstances.

You see what I was before I was a was. An am.

Not all descent is doom.

You know, for character.

To make sure I’m convincing enough to be overlooked.

the language of spatial necessity escaping me.

I hate your audacious whimsy,