I wanted to be a skyscraper once;
a tiger among men.
I wanted to be a lone dark tree
in a white forest.
I wanted to be a statue once,
a marble statue,
cold and poised and pretty.
I wanted to be a page unturned,
a symphony of half-notes.
I wanted to be a poem
composed of semicolons and hyphens.
I wanted to drink
like a whale eats fish
and eat like a Venus flytrap.
I wanted my dinner left on a tray
by the door.
I wanted to be a bright red pill,
the queen of the jackals,
the sound of castanets.
I wanted to be a faceless coin;
I want to know if that has a name.