Purple follows me
and breaks noise
makes noise
silent quiet
Purple knows when to
show her face
she knows that I am a surgeon
who arranges characters
with an unsteady hand
like a child learning
about flightless birds
wondering what’s the point
like a young boy
teaching himself
how to jerk off
in his mother’s bathroom
where would an ostrich fly to?
how far could a duck walk?
Purple says
I’m not violet
and canaries will adapt to live in coal mines