Identity

I wonder when you
are coming to the East,
to argyle cardis
and yuppies and my volvo.
But I know that you won't
ever be like we are-
hungry for lust/love and for
money and for recognition,
for something for anything for everything,
hungry just to be hungry.
I admire how you
can just be and not try to
be anything.
I had a dream
I was breathing in your smoke
and it got in my lungs
and into my heart
and all through my blood
and it lived inside of me
like water,
like a virus,
like a thought,
and I couldn't get it out.
I couldn't get out of me
what you exhaled out so easily.