[present] participle [past]

[present] participle [past]


Whatever you do
Don’t write about me-

us-

like we are participle things
fleshing out the fleshable

and discarding the rest

we fight with adjectives used to describe the state
of our verb

we slide in and out
between the lines

we’re decks of cards
fifty two to a pack

nearly an hour to be
what it is that we’re meant to be?

Each card has a number
and a character to fulfill

a word for each,
and each-

participle that’s- yet.