i'm gonna tell you a secret

i thought
after that dream
that maybe you were
influencing the writing i was doing

because
it didn't sound like me, exactly

that it was silly
in a way
that you are silly

rather than
the way i am silly

maybe
i don't think of myself as silly

but
i can be silly

at any rate
i thought that you were in there
in my head

but
i was in the kitchen a few minutes ago
and i thought this:

maybe
maybe it is all me
maybe it isn't possible
for someone else to influence
someone else's dreams

but
then
i gotta say:

i like me