master of shadows or afraid of the light?/i’ll write run-on sentences and call it experimental/i’ll hide behind my influences/ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more/I’m not that good but a guy can dream/one day they’ll all look back and find these minor pieces and think I was that good/watch me erupt like a volcano/watch me cast a bigger shadow than Teide/i’ll be the Pacific/simply unfathomable/pomp or prophecy?/they are magicians turning my self-belief into hubris/the greatest power anyone can have over you is to make you doubt yourself/punch them in the face whenever you can/so i ball up my hubris into my fists and practice combinations/one! two! three! four!/this poem is a horcrux/you can get rid of me but you’ll never be rid of me/I’m a dance in the sunlight/i’m your favorite meal/the memory of the love of your life/every coin flip that’s in your favor/I’m the universe smiling at you through coincidence/all the happy accidents that have kept you alive through to this very moment/what can i say except you’re welcome?/here’s the secret/you’re a fish in a bowl and the bowl is your mind and you’re only as big as you allow your bowl to be/i’ve made my bowl bigger than the universe/i’m simply unimaginable