what does he mean by
what should I put
in this poem? “you should
put something not of yourself.”
that means I’m
further in the hole
than I’d ever imagined.
that means this coffee is awful
and soften this headache.
how dare the power of repetition!
it repeats itself. this poem
I just read sixty-one
times. sixty-one
poems. sixty-one
dollars of poetry
(plus fiction).
just yesterday we dined across the street,
at Botolph’s. had roasted tomato shiitake mushroom
pesto sandwich on focaccia bread.
now we are playing
the stock market. picking
feathers out of pillows. cheating each other
with words. sixty-one. sixty-one. sixty-one.
