Brilliant, brilliant, Synecdoche, Child of Sorrow you hide me. I’m here, beneath, Name, Employment, Relationship, Wealth, Assets, Social Alphabet, Because it’s better than seeing bare A spirit flayed with heirloom silverware. Inheritance lopped off from a branch Of a tree I hate wholeheartedly I’d rather shrivel in the grass, Far from kinship’s rootedness. If I were alone and completely so Less of a case would be For all this arid metonymy. I am flowing with blood and water And are not surmised by a part of the whole Nor by the whole for a part. Call me child of sorrow. Not me, not me, Synecdoche.