Object Lesson

I hope it pleases you 

to be fodder 

for my imagination 

of course you are also 

drawing me through

the sieve of your thoughts

all of the time

maybe in different ways

so I guess you should be glad 

that I’m only a poet.

And what’s a little 

reciprocal objectification 

between friends

who like to puppet 

the ones that they love 

and make them dance.