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I’d like to float on okay

but then I read about

the singer from Modest Mouse

I like to joke the upside

of an abusive father

is it teaches the absurd

tethers of obligation

love sometimes dwells

with violence, even though

that isn’t really love

which is what Irene told me

when I was twenty-six

a revelation I haven’t

fully internalized but live with,

a cell with a semi-permeable

membrane inside an organism

inside an ecosystem

I used to study biology

because my father

forbade me from pursuing

literature, moving to Montreal,

being gay, eventually

I accomplished all three

it’s okay now

a lot of my poems

refer to salt, the only residue