Rosanna and the Octopus
Channel: Grant Leuning
Date: 09/03/2018

Rosanna eats rotten octopus
kept two weeks in the container
cold dried leg stalks
molded underneath
she sucks the ends and tips
each like a node 
of the agglomerate self

I'm tired of this counter-conventional
wisdom she says
new styles of personhood
experiments in ever expansive
buddhistics

We are a plural
god don't we know it
and what good hasn't it done us to know
to speak to blame the present forms of failure
for the violence of success

That's a self too
That's a plural too

Rosanna eats the octopus
sucks on the rind and the gray stalks
domed cephalus she spits
I'm tired of it

Good on you Rosanna
I'm tired of it too