I wish I was an elephant
in the stomach of a snake
I wish I was a book
forgotten in a library
I wish I was your fingers
when you do that in your bed
I wish I was the twenty-ninth
of the cold February
And on that fateful day
I’ll be walking to my grave
I'll dig a hole in the dirt
I'll open my coffin of ivory
and count the days remaining
for my brain and soul to rot
God I wish I was a shadow
I wish I wasn’t at all.