I Don't Care What You Call Me by David Ford

wednesday

i put on my shoes
and

i had
light bulbs
in my toes   i

turned them on

for light and

i crunched my life
down
to shards
with my feet i

went right through
outside
with
blood

in  my shoes, and with
mercury
rising
in my soul   i

held them
in my

metatarsal heart.

i held the pain of
living without you
as

lights came on
all over the world.

my summer sun and
you turned off the rain  i

fall down
on my knees.

(i jump)  i say hello
to reality

as the glass hearts of all the girls
you kept
in the toe of your shoe

come over me...