Your parents look at you
For the first time
Echoes off her body
Display on the ultrasound

The second that I started dividing
Set on automatic
In separate wombs (rooms)
In attached houses
Underground

When I of tried
To be 100 different people
Did I become myself?
Or was it something more like Grendel?

Your organs sit in the dark
Surgeon saves the heart a spot
Did I put myself together?
Your thoughts perched there like a lark
You haven’t erased what you claim you forgot
Am I taking it all apart?

And I know each breath
Is followed then by the next
Echoes off the wall
Hear the answer I wanted

And when our eyes meet
There is that strange greeting
We’ll show each other parts
We’ve personally never seen

Your organs sit in the dark
Surgeon saves the heart a spot
Did I put myself together?
Your thoughts perched there like a lark
You haven’t erased what you claim you forgot
Am I taking it all apart?
Playing God doesn’t make you sound smart
And if you give an answer or not
You’ve still spoken
“Well if everyone saw it
And everyone thought it
And everyone bought it
And everyone says that it’s true
Why isn’t it clear till it happens to you?”

Anything that you say
Anything you do
You can latch onto

And dance dance dance dance
Cause your life is over
No more Saturday’s waiting
In rain in the afternoon