Self-Having, and: Removing Degrees

Self-Having

My bra is fresh washedand smells of fresh scentas my hair smellsof the cucumber-mint

conditionercustom orderedas a giftfor my type of hair

and so I may as welluse it and smellof what has been givenand feel

that everythingthat smells is givenlike their scentsand so my skin and so my hair

feel as thoughthey were givenand so the worldout the window

that is even less givenfor it smellsof itselfas we all must do

though this does not happenwhenever we canbe washedor dressed or inside

and so givenby scentsto ourselvesand our sense of their having

Removing Degrees

The man I livewith looks like hisbrotherwho back in the day

would have stepped inif an emergencyshould happen. Buttoday my brother-in-law

sits far awayon the couch inno place to sayanything of our life

he looks like a boyin my class wholooks up and islistening but may

or may not approve.He likes to raiseobjections and have themrighted. It’s really

just that my brother-in-lawand the boyin my class lookalike to a degree

that supposing therecould only betwo brotherswould shut out my

lover and me.They are two brotherswith whomwe have nothing to do.