sign the waiver

eat the wind

the fragrance of jest

the realness of skin

eat life

in its own hardness

unpick the myth

of potency

the sickness

of stars

                                                                                                                                                             and

                                                                                                                                                      then

                                                                                                                                                 that

                                                                                                                                             one

                                                                                                                              exception