: squiggly lines

and in your portrait i saw pieces that i never would have seen

without my glasses, a 20-something with an espresso machine.

i think i love you on that wall, an elegant elephant 

(such a duchess!) and the juxtaposition of your beaming eyes scaling this postered 

apartment. doodles, our future shared through where we've stared - (is this our apart meant?)

& isn't what we hope to say

i've seen what you've seen, without my glasses?

: the youths

look up, little ninja!

red, orange, green&gold, wind, no indigo, violent

string your moves along like small plastic beads, purple, bound round your tiny wrist

pop pop pop

why are you so mean?

it's just not needed now nor never, not ever, little ninja.