Shelf items sit idle for weeks, months, years —
these are just collections of days filled with
collections of people you’ll never meet,
collections of people you plan to flee,
collections of people you have want for,
people that depart for — other people
that express the want you want to express
to the person in your collections of people
                                                                    you have want for.

Inspired by Rufus Wainwright’s “Respectable Dive.”