From: The Spyros Obsession

Strawberry waffles
Chocolate chip waffles
Chicken and waffles
That extra layer of fabric you find in the crotch of
some underwear and all the
things I currently have shoved down in there
Crumb cake
Pound cake
Marble pound cake
Carmel corn
Corn-on-the-cob
Cream corn
Pulp
Anything that can be made into a pulp
The Acropolis
The Acropolis subway station
Pubic hair
Shaved
Waxed
Trimmed
Trimmed into a very strange-looking design
The day I read that all of those
low-rise apartments in
Athens the polykatoikia are never more than
six or seven or eight stories high because in the
40’s there was a law that no
building could be taller than the Acropolis
My intense fear of sexual submission
An accordion
Cigarette in the mouth
All the things that go into really good fellatio
All the things that go into a really good vanilla cake
Aerosols
Feminine hygiene products
Pads
Cups
Tampax
Extra-large
Medium
And small
Sappho
The year I first read Sappho in high school
and all the things I did to myself afterwards
White
Rye
Pumpernickel
Whole wheat
Men who know how to pick the lock
The frozen Aegean
The thawing Aegean
Admitting everything to you
Admitting nothing to you
Fanta
Diet Seven-up
Gatorade

Anything made out of gelatin
Anything that looks like it’s made out of
gelatin but actually isn’t
An itchy red spot that never really ever develops
into anything but also never ever really goes away
Elektra
An extended absence that feels like the color yellow
A body too long to be buoyant
Stiff knees
Plastic desk lamps
Incest
The amount of fear I judge to be acceptable for
me to carry around on any given day
Skinny jeans
Le Corbusier’s 1911 trip to Greece
Isabel Archer in Greece
Henry Miller in Greece
Mary Shelley in Greece
Lord Byron in Greece
E.M. Forster in Greece
Flaubert in Greece
Corn starch
Potato starch
Baking soda
Anarchists
Anarchists in Athens
All the anarchists in Athens I follow on Instagram
All the anarchists on Instagram who follow me back
Plus-size lingerie
Jello
Green Jello
Red Jello
Red Jello with prefect little slices of banana
suspended in it
Offering you sexual vulnerability and getting
back a lecture on the history of the ablative
Ice freezing
Ice melting
Barthes: “[a]morous absence functions in
a single direction, expressed by the one who
stays, ever by the one who leaves; an always
present I is constituted only by confrontation
with an always absent you.”
Cold showers
Hot saunas
The circumference of the average man’s
asshole
Polyphony
Polygon
Polytechnic
Polyamory
Polyglot
Polymath
Polygraph
Polyester
Polychrome
Polygamy
Polytheism
You took me to the Polytehnic someone had
spraypainted on one of the metal office
doors “I love you Elena” which only served
to confirm a theory I’ve always had about
the usefulness of the body
A twelve pack of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers
Revenge porn
Large language models
Windex
Xanax
Tubes of personal lubricant
Tubes of Super Glue
Instagram poetry
A prolapsed uterus
A prolapsed bladder
A prolapsed rectum
A prolapsed small intestine
Broccoli florets
iPhone photography
The day I read that all of those low-rise
apartments in Athens the polykatoikia are
never more than
six or seven or eight stories high because
in the 40’s there was a law that no
building could be taller
than the Acropolis
My intense fear of sexual submission
An accordion
Cigarette in the mouth
All the things that go into really good fellatio
All the things that go into a really good vanilla cake
Sappho
The year I first read Sappho in high school
and all the things I did to myself afterwards
White
Rye
Pumpernickel
Whole wheat
Men who know how to pick the lock
The spurs I keep with me at all times in my
weekend bag
The frozen Aegean
The thawing Aegean
Admitting everything to you
Admitting nothing to you
Fanta
Diet Seven-up
Gatorade
Men who read Lacan
Men who don’t read Lacan
The day I read that in 1954 Lacan bought
Courbet’s L’Origine du monde and hung it
up in his summer house
And all the things I did to myself after I read that
Kayaks
Skim milk
Low-fat milk
Oat milk
Almond milk
Non-dairy creamer
Soy milk
Hemp milk
The color everyone thinks Mars is
The color it really is
Your right elbow your left testicle
And all the other things I could list
out that are dark and warm and familiar
Nipples under anything silky
Nipples under anything lacey
Nipples under anything made of winter
performance fleece
Tree nuts
Oreos
Double-stuffed Oreos
Christmas Oreos
Halloween Oreos
Low sugar cranberry juice
Low sugar Gatorade
The lyrical “I”, yes!
Spending an entire afternoon painting each
other green and then painting each other
purple and then starting back over again with green
Boy’s underwear
Boy’s underwear at JC Penny
Boy’s underwear at Sears
Boy’s underwear at Kohl’s
Boy’s underwear at Macy’s
Boy’s underwear at Target
Marmalade
Ice cream sandwiches
Anne Carson’s The Gender of Sound
Rice wine vinegar
Things that won’t dissolve in rice wine vinegar
Vacation time
The fact that Isabel Archer
got as far as Greece
The fact that I had forgotten about that until I re-
read it when I was on the flight
Sex mirrors superglued to the ceiling
Dishpan hands
From a liquid to a solid to a
gas and then back again