All The Things I Cannot Say
Sometimes I think these poems are just an excuse
for not writing the novel that sits in my drawer not
crossing the park to the library not going to visit my mother's
last remaining sibling in one of those crazy blueish places
a kind of a hotel with chair yoga and cookies. Sometimes I think my poems
give me license not to floss, not to meditate except once in a while,
not to give away the shoes that hurt but I still like them maybe
I'll wear them once a year not to finish a few of the books by my bed,
not to exercise all that much either. Although I live in the city
so what I do is walk and while I walk I usually think of poems.