Burns like fire

Burns like fire, kills like ice and moves like a daydream flies like a nightmare kills like a question fights like a newsreel speaks like a paragraph forgets like a mug of lukewarm coffee leaves like a palm tree scurries like a bunny funny like an airplane rushes like a rocket gushes like an airstream spins like sprint falls like autumn dries like summer wet like a rainy day hard like a tables sharp like a rhinestone poor like a diamond clean like a towel thin like a Hattori Honzo blade cold like a window questions like a mountain valley tiles like a pile of debris tall like a tennis ball round like a Rubik’s cube square like a half-eaten plate of boiled rice and vegetables green like a beetroot root like a cabbage aged like a fresh can of beer bear like a ring wrung like a ball of yarn yawn like a hippo oulipo to measure the words you write stopping something breaking a pattern unexpectedly hiding behind the gray of a sweatshirt with a hoodie that covers almost all of the face change when a ray of light is reflected on a floor of glass slippery like grass class like Whitman hitmen like carpenters dentists like molars premolars like to chew and to blue like an old cloud proud like an eagle fly like a kite or a vulture cultured like a large nuclear family of bacteria and fungi on petri dish glass plates in microbiology labs with cold rooms Eskimo igloos that smell like penicillin and penguins that have been searching for seahorses all their lives for something or something else