Where My Poems Were
They dropped off the universe because
of mailchimp because my payment had been declined
because I lost my credit card a while ago and my number changed
because I didn't know that my poems would be affected
by losing my credit card I have often lost my credit card
without a poem correlation I only knew that some people
wrote to me saying where were my poems had I stopped
writing them and was there a Good Reason did I want to take
a winter break was it the time of year or politics or was it because
I had the flu or Something Else I Didn't Say and here's the real
reason the truth of poems I am grateful to write them grateful
is the Right Word a teacher once told me she didn't like the word
grateful I do and I am grateful to write poems and I am not especially
good with things like wallets and credit cards and computers either
so today when my wallet and credit card is where they are supposed to be
my new yellow sample sale bag and my mailchimp account has been restored
thanks to Holly Sears who told me what to do my poems which have never
disappeared, really never, are here for you today.