I’m Almost Not Even Here.  But, Anyway... 
 Turning a lot of pages, 
 I rotate on an 
 absolute nothing existence, 
 which might be better than 
 absolute nothingness (?).
 Only joking (?), or all kidding aside (?), 
 I drink my soup, a tall glass 
 of cold water.  The glass is rather 
 inexpensive (but great for the heart!) be- 
 cause it was formerly an expensive 
 Pom™ juice container.  Somebody 
 I initially thought was very sweet had
 
 made me the chicken noodle soup because 
 he’d noticed that I’d been coughing incessantly. 
 Ah, springtime in the winter!  Anyway, 
 a warm mug of tea is now very sweet.  
 It sits on the green marble table that used to be 
 my working desk (pretty at which to look, but 
 lousy at which to work) that sits in the living room 
 that is mine (and mine alone).  Atop the table 
 are strewn a bunch of books and magazines:  e.g., 
 Rob’s Rumored Place, Norma’s Moira, Mirage #3/ 
 Period(ical) no. 133, Judith Butler’s Precarious Lives, 
