A reality of expectations

"I thought I understood it,

that I could grasp it,

but I didn't,

not really.

Only the smudgeness of it;

the pink-slippered,

all- containered,

semi-precious eagerness of it.

I didn't realize it would sometimes be more than whole,

that the wholeness was rather luxurious idea.

Because it's the halves that halve you in half.

I didn't know,

 don't know,

about the in-between bits;

the gory bits of you,

and the gory bits of me.

Drake Doremus & Ben York Jones