Almost Know Your Name - Nana Grizol

I had a dream our shared experience was tangible

There was a string that just connected me to you

For several thousand miles it stretched into my soup can

I expressed I feel as though I almost know your name

I wrote a story on the wrapper of my chocolate bar

About a rare bird and a bear in an endangered space

And I felt as though I’d seen them, in a way as though I’d been them

All my empathy embedded in the richness of the taste

It gets easy to look past all the middlemen

All the suits and ties that bind our lives in place

I mean I don’t really care for all the interests they’re there for

It’s just you need a framework for the features on the face

Oh, accumulation in everything

And oh, where are the edges of myself?

And oh, among the labels of the shit I bought

I’m not the one I’d like to be oh no, but I see someone else