I once wanted to be

a teacher
a photographer
a wizard
an inspiration
a deleted sentence
an astronaut
a doctor of witches

a musician
a successful horoscope
a window to the past
a cyclone
a unicorn

i once wanted to be an ant
but seeing as i can't
i'd be like to be some kind of plant
where people might never find me

or where someone loving
who will take me as i am

does just that

once is not enough
a thong
on a pleasant girl's
upskirt

i've dreamed
that life as a can
an actor
a bottle of poison
would still
not suffice

a god
a rod
a pill
in an unfair logic
which brings it back

a human
a soul
a reasonable raise
a violent decrease in prices
in everything
that is nothing

once i wanted to be
something

but i always wished i could be