A Man Becomes Him

A boy pulls stitches from
his knee and stretches them out
on stone tablets. He eats
a typewriter whole
and chokes.

His letters fall out.

He carves a cavern out of stone and stitches.
A pick axe becomes him.

He secures himself a future
by financing further expeditions.

His letters are fully mature by age twenty.
He learns how to have conversations with them.

He fully integrates blasphemy
into the cave's ecosystem.

A moth brings him berries.
He kills the messenger and molds himself out of clay.

He cannot recall a time where wild-fires spread
this far south. He calls upon himself and creates
a one man fire line.

He re-discovers the typewriter in his stomach.
He finds the word for water and pumps it on the fire.
He finds the word for sky and paints it on the domed ceiling.
He finds the word for life and breathes it on the dirt.
He finds the words for himself.

A man becomes him.