Am I polytextual? A serious question

if you are haunted. 

phrases call out. They

are many.

They even

provide comfort

but

not for long.

Recalled, rehearsed

over and over again.

“Prepare to do

battle. ” So I ask myself —

Would it have come up

if I hadn’t read this book,

my boundaries

undone with a kiss (and

another book)?

“These things

frequently gather

and disperse. One word

so easily borders

upon another.” Did I

say that?  

Other books are

“speaking”

to this book;

it’s getting noisy in here. Is this

a book?

The spines, side by side.

~~~~

Can I help it if “dominance,”

keeps inserting itself between pages?

For example, there are

interviews. The C___’s

lack of vanilla. Sawing

the wo-

man in half

Filipina vampires (no legs)

their hunger for

gravity

(read: texts? more than one?)