Needy

I want to hide in your couch cabinet drawers under
your table inside your refrigerator –look closely
between friday’s pie and yesterday’s berries–
Want to inhabit your eyes and ears drown everything
else out fill your nose mouth suffocate you with
my presence alone –this is not abuse–
I will be in your t.v. all five hundred channels all five
hundred yous between the fantasy and fiction on
your bookshelf every song on your radio computer
ipod every lyric every melody
I want to follow you haunt you in the walls and behind
every door and
If you try to escape me drive off in the night I’ll sleep in
the trunk of your car I’ll push the pumps of your
engine push your pedals travel your route buckle
you up
And if you finally find me clinging to the underside of
your bed breathless eyes wide lips curled between a
smirk and a snarl you will deny me unless I can
silence you with
                                                             my charm