If I am poetry,
then she is prose.
But I am mangled, far more than she
so to read our lives out like a
story,
you might suppose the order
should be switched.

Don't ask her, though. She'd simply say
that I'm right if one is making that
comparison -
- but then go on to say that it's a
false dichotomy,
that there's another option that
I haven't thought of
yet.

Of course, since she's not here, I don't
know what that would be.