‘flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh’
the stoic
had spoken
or written these words
which is never the same
thing
he could have been
an Epicurean
but was too
libidinal
to fit the term
pleasure, yes
but excess?
but I’m not
here to
judge
or compare
simply to
repeat
on my twenty-
eighth
finished year:
‘flesh covers the bone and flesh searches for more than flesh’
wouldn’t that make
a great
bedtime story?
Beyond Language 
flesh covers the thought and thought searches for more than flesh
wouldn’t that make
a great
bedtime story?
Epic, I needed that.
And what if something else covers thought. Something else covers the desire; unwittingly, I was upheld by something I didn’t know about, asking for more, in terms which I, or you, could never define.
Yes, it would make a great bedtime story.