a pattern

would be comfortable

 

a takeback or so

I would remove it

 

if you could tell me

what it was

 

there would have been

no dear John letter divorce

 

I would not have ever

received emancipation at 16

 

perhaps that is why

I am so frustrated

 

by cigarette butts

and anything

tossed out a moving vehicle

 

then we make others

clean

 

a therapist

a soldier

an environment

 

selling armaments

killing families

 

today nothing is

sacred

 

what rituals

exist to quiet bravado

 

maybe it all matters

far too much

 

as I clinch myself

and let the rain land

softly