You arrived in kit form Your complete naked body Laid part by part On soft white silk Your muscles like balls of scarlet dough And your bones as white as milk And your organs suspended In liquid and sealed in small glass jars And shielded from light In a black metal box Chained up and locked With a warning of danger Your beating stranger's heart Oh flatpack bride of possibilities Endless and amazing Of plugging and of plumbing Of stitching and sewing The stockings of skin For your languid limbs And the patchwork palms Of your parchment hands The weaving of wisps of the wig And the strands of curly For the marking Doggardly working In the drowned out half light With lovestruck hearts light With eyes like lanterns for danger And stranger than all I'd imagined you'd be Is the you that falls into place But twice as intriguing And ten times more gorgeous Than the dream of you that I chased Would you stop breathing If I plugged this tube in this line here Would you stop blinking If I stitched this to your eye If your instructions of assembly Are a bit unclear Is this a calf Is this forearm Or a thigh Let me build you Part by part Help me build you Part by part part part Like I saw you in a dream A flatpack bride of possibilities And each bone connected Each organ plugged in Reveals another unexpected joy And with your very first breath You sing me the love song Of the girl assembled by her boy And your limbs may Protrude from some surprising places You've got two heads But both with beautiful faces And word of your wonder Will wander for miles With your five shining eyes And your three winning smiles Would you stop breathing If I plugged this tube in this line here Would you stop blinking If I stitched this to your eye If your instructions of assembly Are a bit unclear Is this a calf Is this a forearm Or a thigh Let me build you Part by part Help me build you Part by part part part Like I saw you in a dream A flatpack bride of possibilities Of possibilities