Do you play games of hazard?

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Have you ever abandoned a baby?

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Would you dress up to personify a dread disease?
Would you walk through the lamplit night as cholera?

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Are you the kind of shopper who wears dark glasses?
Do you hide your eager, dilated pupils?

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Have you ever been caught with your hand in the jar?

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Do you bathe in cold water? Do you ask your dentist to skip the novocaine?

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Do you listen to music to lose your ego?

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Do you sometimes ache for a clear blue line?

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Have you ever lost your empathy?

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Do you ever, or often, see red?

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Can you pinpoint a faux-pas? Do you consider it your prerogative to make them?

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When you see a monkey reaching for a banana, do your cells fire?

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Would you consider the gag reflex empathy?
Emotional contagion?

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Do you occasionally think about runs in stockings?

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Would you think of sex as letting off steam?
Do you call it that to his face?

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Everyone’s recipe is someone else’s, or are you going to tell me that this one is your invention?

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Do you often converse with the dead?

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Do you like our kind of food, or theirs?

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Do you tend to go from feast to famine?
Then back again?

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Are you the barbarian, or am I?

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Are you authentic?

Who says?

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Do you find expensive plumage unnecessary?
And the peacock, too, unnatural?

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Do you violate the grid?

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Do you rub the bald heads of statues as you pass?

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If you were a pawnbroker, would you accept gold teeth?

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Do you avoid the fee collector?

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Are people frightened of you?

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Do you consider yourself spiritually radiant? Grandly worldly?

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Madame, is that a jewel box or a tomb?

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Do you put your faith in the Virgin, the saints?

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It’s true, isn’t it? No one joins a cult.

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Have you ever watched a beheading?

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Does your carriage bear an imperial certificate of safe conduct?

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What is your definition of a heretic?

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Do you consider yourself blessed?

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Do you see yourself as upright or crooked?

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Do you pull on a rope to bring up a bucketful?

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Do you know any acrobats?

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What do you barter?

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What do you keep in your pockets, just in case?

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How do you get rid of your ungodly excess?

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Do you eat meat while they’re watching?

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Do you slam the door in the census taker’s face?

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Are you disgusted by what’s asymmetric?

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Have you ever been chloroformed?

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Was that you piling your jewelry at the foot of an icon, praying to conceive?

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When will you consume the last teaspoonful?

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How will you finish the conversation?

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Do you think of yourself as being mostly a mouth?

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Just a warm cunt?

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Do you agree with Miletus that magnets have souls?

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Have you ever wielded a fistful of stones?

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Is defense your number one issue when you vote?

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Do you sing full body?
Do you speak in tongues?

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What do you appropriate?

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Do you long to resuscitate dying songs?

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Do your fans bring chocolate?

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Would you slaughter the herd to prevent it from dying of thirst?

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Do you come from a home where there was never enough?

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Is that your finger in the pot?
Is that your tongue in the soup?
Are those your teeth around the bone?

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Do you know any killjoys?

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To you, is a placebo a lie?
If it works?

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When do you go blind?
When does your psyche cut off sight?

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How much of a disguise would you need before you were unrecognizable to yourself?

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Who were you in the enormity of the cathedrals’ construction?

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Where do your loyalties lie?

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Are your memories images or propositions?
Are they carried in muscle and bone?

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Do you know anyone who waits for the right sort of light?

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Do you get sick much?
Do you take refuge in your illnesses?

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Do you sometimes think being a mother is bad news?

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Have you been long under surveillance?

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Are you the kind of person who scratches others out of the picture, or the kind who gets scratched out?

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Do you know any warlords?

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Are you part of a tribe?

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Do your animals fight?
And your tribesmen—are they killers?

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What would you do with reams of classified documents?
Would you ever think to use them to smoke your carp?

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And now that we’re here together, let me ask:
Are you merely my type? Or someone truly special?