if i called you
if i asked the
pin stripes
on my shirt
to call you
would they run off
in radiant gradients
looking for you
in pockets of pants
if i asked my shoes
to smell out your trail
like a pair of hound dogs
running wild out of my hands
would have the entrails of
feather and thread
to you
led
or would the condition of
black underwear
left under my bed
confuse their scents
and suggest to them
to suggest to me
(in an extremely polite sense
to call you myself
instead