The need for thirsty makes us power, the need/
the need for thirst is the need for this: thistle
The need for this is thirsty, it makes us puzzled,
this need
this thirst is busy, it needs you to desist,
resist
This need resists you it is this: grist
for the mill or is it just gristle?
This stubborness chews and chews and chews and I
can’t
solve it
Whistle.
The need shivers. The need is behind the backdrop
behind the screen that tells us this.
The needle. Otherwise, just this:
a place, and in it
the power to make thirsty
the power to shrivel
we measure this in absence, against
