all I ever wanted
was a brand new organ
something deep inside me
that I couldn’t explain
when I pull it out
and stick it on a slide
it just disappears
there it goes again —
I don’t mean to say
that anatomists
are all observationally numb (numb, numb, numb)
but in its absence
was an implied presence
interstitium (um, um, um)
interstitium (um, um, um)
interstitium (um, um, um)