I WILL NOT WILL
NOT WASTE FOOD, INCLUDING
A QUARTER OF A COLD HAM
SANDWICH. I WILL NOT KILL THAT
XEROX MACHINE THERE. I WILL
NOT USE THE TELEPHONE FOR NON-EMERGENCIES
LIKE MINOR CUTS OR JUVENILE
PARANOIAS OR ANYTHING NOT GROUNDED BY TWO
FIRM BOOTS IN THE MUCK. I WILL NOT
CATEGORIZE.
I AM ADDICTED TO GREEN TEA. I DO NOT CARE
ABOUT WHAT RON SILLIMAN THINKS ABOUT YOU,
OR WHAT YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT
ME. I WILL I WILL
BE SENTIMENTAL. I WISH I WAS YOUNGER
LIKE NEGATIVE THREE. NOT SO MANY ARTSY
CALENDARS DISCARDED AND A HEAP OF PAUL KLEE
IN THE TRASH.

TYPING UP NOTES AT WORK I THOUGHT
OF YOU AND THE TIME I ASKED WHAT YOU WERE THINKING,
AFTER SEX UPSTAIRS THE SUMMER 
OF NO AIR CONDITIONING, AND YOU ANSWERED
THE CASPIAN SEA.  I LOSE LIP
BALM DON’T EVEN NEED AN AIRPORT.
OR THE TIME I SNUCK A DEAD BUTTER-
FLY OUT OF YOUR GLOVE COMPARTMENT AND
GAVE IT TO YOU FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY,
FROZEN IN A LITTLE GLASS BOX.
I FLUSH MY HEADACHES OUT AND I WILL NOT
WILL NOT DIE TODAY.

THE POLICE OFFICER RESPONDED LIKE CHURNED
BUTTER ON HARD BREAD. SOME KID
STOLE MY CAR BUT BROUGHT IT BACK MY
STEREO ISN’T GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE OR
MY LIBRARY BOOKS APPARENTLY. I SHRUG OFF 
DISROBE
SLIP OUT OF
ALL SYNONYMS FOR MISFORTUNE.

TO-DO LIST CREEPING WHILE THE OFFICE
IS OUT OF TOWN. I WILL NOT WAVE
TO THE MAYOR. I WILL NOT CO-MINGLE MY FINGERS
WITH YOURS. OR WHEN I RAN AWAY TO THE BACKYARD
AND YOU WERE ALREADY THERE SMOKING
SOMEONE ELSE'S CIGARETTE. A DIFFERENT WEEKEND WHEN THE POWER
WAS OUT BEFORE WE KNEW
IT WAS A HURRICANE AND WE WERE ALL
LAUGHING IN THE DARK.  THE PROSPECT OF DOMESTIC. CONVERSATION
UNDERGROUND.

SO WHAT
IF MY EDUCATION STOPS HERE THE HEAT
IS BOUND TO LET UP LET ANOTHER SEASON
INTO THE YEAR.  I WILL NOT WILL
NOT PARTAKE IN DAIRY OR OTHER DAIRY-BASED
FOODS.  I WILL NOT 
RESEND MY EMAIL WHERE
DID IT GO THE FIRST TIME VIRTUALLY I EXIST
AS YOU DO.  
TWELVE HOT DOGS FOR THREE DOLLARS YOU
DO THE MATH AND LEAVE HUNGRY.  DUST

COVERS EVERYTHING A DUSTING OF PARTICLE LOVE.

I WILL NOT LOOK AT YOU IN PARTICULAR.  I WILL
SUSTAIN THE NOTE.