I insist

In part I see one half.
A set of Chinese cups with steam lids.
If the trouble lies under rain, relocate?
Under each of these a thought she or he left.

A set of Chinese cups with steam lids.
A coupling on a paper shelf.
Under each of these a thought she or he left.
Try to get through 5:15 a.m.

A coupling on a paper shelf.
Do you smoke in here?
Try to get through 5:15 a.m.
He says, “I’d buy you the biggest bathtub in the world”.

Do you smoke in here?
Warped weather, whose storm is this?
He says, “I’d buy you the biggest bathtub in the world”.
Half for love, half for eating.

Warped weather, whose storm is this?
I didn’t want a squirrel-hair paintbrush; I’d take you instead.
Half for love, half for eating.
Not once did the night fur seem to waver.

I didn’t want a squirrel-hair paintbrush; I’d take you instead.
But the sound was ominous and still, still deafening.
Not once did the night fur seem to waver.
Pomegranate, potato, can we relocate this steam?

But the sound was ominous and still, still deafening.
Folding each circular memorandum into my daily pocket.
Pomegranate, potato, can we relocate this steam?
I am collecting plastic for a belt – whose waist?

Folding each circular memorandum into my daily pocket.
A post-script belief and I was a believer.
I am collecting plastic for a belt – whose waist?
10 minutes of silence, the train is still running.

A post-script belief and I was a believer.
I am trying to find a place to lie down.
10 minutes of silence, the train is still running.
Nothing has been lost.

I am trying to find a place to lie down.
Sigh no sign of vodka soda.
Nothing has been lost.
Water plants, water self.

Sigh no sign of vodka soda.
What could be more tired or dimmer?
Water plants, water self.
Tiny mirrors at the bottom of this glass.