like the glass-eyed fish / comes up to swallow a floating crumb / ends up with a hooked operculum / say you can acquire culture from the Disney Channel / like you can discover race via sitcoms / there is still a lot to learn / about Advent and Lent Jesus / about what exactly went down at Jerusalem / about evasive tongues / my inability to say the word fuck / at a party game for horrible people / like soaked almonds / lose crunch / the emphases unsettling / like someone revolutionizing my name / sanctioned in a conservatory / whetted brain / built from reading books that came on a vessel / a vessel I boarded to tail the gospels to the source / a misshapen key lodged under my tongue / the embellishment cracked / at dawn and Innatism / because I wasn’t born playing / Cards Against Humanity