I is for injury, for interloper, for infatuation, for imagination.
I is for Indigenous, independent and influential.
I is for India, infidel, for Icarus in flight.
I is my personal pronoun, except when I’m plural, which has been happening a lot lately, CGI or no CGI, I am mostly me. Whatever I am or is, I’m not U.
I is for immune, for icon, for insane.
I is for incarcerate, incinerate, inappropriate.
I is for idea. As in “what’s the big.”
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DO ME SOME IMPOSSIBLE THING
Never been heard or seen
before I have seen it. Awe shucks,
almost heard it, but I’m not wearing
my hearing aids. Nearly caught
a glimpse but I’m not wearing
my looking glasses, so lie to me instead.
I’ll believe you.
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I is for for intubate, with my wife’s permission
slide that fat flexible tube down my throat
lungs full of dirty vegetable
the tube getting my goat.
I is for inspiration, there was no room for that.
I is for id, largerly hid
I is for incest. (Coming up next)