Friday, January 24, 2025

I Feel Like A Million Bucks

like I’m fresh off the mint


like I’m flush with power


like I can do anything I want


like I can get anyone to do anything I want


like I make men’s hearts beat hard

and turn the heads of women on the street


like I’m utterly unattainable


like if you answered all the questions correctly 

I would give myself to you


like I could sit in a dark room and make myself 

grow and grow and grow


like cancer or an amoeba


like I’ve just spent the last three hours

stuffed inside a duffel bag 

in the trunk of an SUV 

driving south on the Turnpike


like I’ve changed hands more times than I can count


but the IRS can count


and does


like a drop in the bucket


like I could vanish without a trace


like if only you could find me

make me

have me

keep me

everything would be all right


like I’m all things to all people


and only worth what they say I am


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