I Fought a grizzly
bear
as you drank your
pomegranate tea

and I kept looking
at my arms
for marks,
and feeling my
neck for that
fever that climbs
up my spine and
burrows in my skull
until I just want
to take your

stupid tea

and shove it in
my ears
my nose
my eyes
my mouth
anything to make
the brown bear
run away, and
go
and make you see
that I can't fight a
bear alone.