Inveterately Editing

Cartoons: tangled male
and female flesh –
indiscriminately
meshed, undressed –
freshly misconstrued –
reduced to tiny silly outline

in my mind – clumsily
untrue: three and four
dimensions bled to two:
toppled on its side:
so my inveterately
editing reductive brutal

memory makes mince
of all the round, warm,
breathing, enigmatic selves
whom I once knew
but evidently now refuse
to recollect in you.

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