Erasure Poem of “not a lot, just forever” by Adrienne Lenker Erasure

Transcription

Through your eyes I see a lie

I tether
Not a lot, just forever

Intertwined sewn together
like true love

And I try to calm the wolf
to remind her I am both
Still she tears at my sweater

I 
your dearest fantasy 
am
could be
wanna be
so I hold my knife forever

Enter 
as I bash around the house and
the poison stains my mouth
I let paradise in

Can't get much better

Not a lot, just forever
Not a lot, just forever