To Carrie
I exist at night
sometimes not coming out
of my lair
for days
i structure the ways of the
universe around my
biological clock
timebomb
chickenwing
she does not even exist
insofar things subsist on consuming
other things
and yet
after eight hundred years
of eternal quiet
filtered through the rain
and my bone marrow
it's a riot
to hear her tell me
about the nature of simple things