le savoir

I knew you once.
How you thought
Or I thought

But I was only peeking out of my left eye.
Trying to pass an eye test that everyone else
Had passed
Like energetic idiots

Those who don’t need intervention
always ace that part
but never understand
why
you can’t see
the letter E as big as your face

If I said enough letters, one would be right
Eventually
But I went through all of them and was told
None
Of those were it.

I thought the stye I had was hindering my vision
At one point
But the doctor told me
I didn’t have a stye
Despite me insisting that I did

My glasses need new lenses.
Or none at all
With frames as strong as peanut brittle
If they got left
Behind
But you could eat the demolition
To pretend it never happened
You knew they had no value when they were
crushed

You criticized me for having cracked frames
once
But ironically
you were the one
who sat on my glasses
in the first place

It’s the 3rd time it’s happened
Which was weird
Because the crack appeared
in the same location
Every time

It made it hard to see
But I kept trying

I saw your wires once
When you didn’t want me to know your secret
But I did
So I kept pretending you were a real boy
With savoir