The Hole in the Sum of My Parts // Matt Harvey // a friend has just sent me this

Part of me is punctual - it turns up right on time
Part of me is functional - though slightly past its prime
Part of me is lowly - it lows just like a cow
Part of me is holy - at least holier-than-thou
Part of me's subliminal - it's kind of either/or
Part of me is criminal - it's quite against the law
Part of me is actually more solid than it seems
And part of me is factual
          But most of me is dreams

Part of me is truculent - don't look that way at me
Part of me is succulent - suck it and you'll see
Part of me's detestable - or so people have said
Part of me's suggestible - or so people have said
Part of me's competitive - it only wants to win
Part of me's repetitive - or so people have said
Part of me's interminable - it goes on and on and on
And on and on and on and on and on and on (and on)
Part of me's prolific - it writes reams and reams and reams
And part of me's terrific
          But most of me is dreams

Parts of me are distant - and yet can seem so near
Parts of me are whispers, which the other parts can't hear
Parts of me are broken and tremble to the touch
And these parts can be spoken - but I don't speak them much
Part of me is pensive - I think. But I don't know.
Part of me's defensive --- so?
Part of me's celestial - it gleams and beams and gleams
And part of me is bestial - GRRRR!
          But most of me is dreams

Part of me is tiny - but not the part you think
Part of me is shiny - and a pleasing shade of pink
Part of me is laudable - it's for a worthy cause
And part of me's inaudible (whispered: like imaginary gorse)
Part of me is hairy - to be honest, not a lot
Part of meLs contrary - no, it's not
Part of me's co-operative - it plays so well in teams
And part of me's inoperative
          But most of me is dreams

Parts of me are latent - lurking dormant underneath
Parts of me are blatant - for some reason they're called Keith
Parts of me have stamina - because I do Chi Gung
And part of me's my anima - according to the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung
Part of me is piddling - yet full of cosmic yearning
And part of me is fiddling - while the rest of me is burning
Part of me is fluent - it flows as sure as streams
While part of me plays truant
          But most of me - as I've tried to emphasize here - is dreams

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