"Start something," he said
"and let me add to it."

You fucker.

If you want                  something
you should want it enough to start it
to light the fuse
to give the punch
to lift a finger;
    
                             any finger.

Instead, you come to me.
You want my ideas
strip-mind
invasive consumption

you want to take what I have
                 what I am
and make something of it
    build something of it.

    build                    something

am I nothing but bricks for your house
                 mud for your bricks?

If I wanted to be changed
    transformed

I would offer myself to your alchemically sculpting hands
                         your defining chisel
                          your drying pen.


    But what would you say

(what would you make of it)

    if I were to tell you that I'd rather remain
as mud?

Col*lab`o*ra"tion (?), n.

The act of working together; united labor.

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