i'm living inside a whale
eating only milk and toast
and when i pour myself some milk and spill,
all the mothers i've digested come out
and smack me and apologize
for having spent their whole lives in bed
inside the body of an animal
same thing happens with soy milk
same thing happens when i make a mistake
same thing happens when you don't hand me a tissue to wipe
the milk off my face
and there is so much sand outside,
it's a land of palm beaches
and bananas
that i can't see, because i'm living inside a whale
if i lived inside a jellyfish
i would be trying to communicate
something to you about electricity
and hara-kiri.