Ashley VanDoorn
The Blue Otherwise Known as Stolen Fire
We are not sense-senseless when we are sentences.When the shoplifter stops litter, the shapeshifter’s a sharpshooter.
Are you human or a gun?
Humming again.
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To be desired you must want to be.
You.
“I” must want to be “you.”
And You is not-you.≈
“So,” she says, “what are your intentions?”
She says, “you are are you?” share ring discretely≈
lucky number ≈
0: dumbness has nothing to do with luck.
2: numbness has nothing to do with fuck.≈
She hasn’t written a word.
Never has she ever warded a wren.
Warned tenfold an advent she has not.
Not that that’s a secret projection of “her” desire.
Never has she ever secrete/d a project less protectIve.
The secret vent is in.
Warden, arbor “I”s ardent.
