I want to write a novel

I want to tell a long story
paced and moody
heavy in weight
bound by Rosa Parks spine

I want to write a pit bull of a book that
barks

that bites

I want to write a novel

but what
the hell do I know about writing novels?

novels are long
so long

James Dean is easy
James Dean is a shooting star

but Marlon’s gut
gets bigger and bigger
each marriage
a bigger crash than last

a short story can
shoot its girlfriend
shoot heroine

flood its lungs
no Noah to build no Ark

but a novel

a novel loses hair
a novel lives the death of punk
a novel sells butter on TV

I want to write a novel so bad