Where a Space is Counted as a Character
for Lynn Crosbie
a ledger of characters
surging, insistent, limited
its audit requires
an emotional intelligence
I am careful to listen for
though the reigning preposition
is to
I say to myself -- is to
I say it in Franz’s voice, then in Sophie’s
after screaming at them
“Alice Cooper is not a woman!”
is too!
and this went on for some time
as gunfire sometimes does
spewing youth, taking it
our block a Sarajevo, with me its Princip
we were eleven when I understood how
in the context of learning what we know
someone could think so
our wars ended
when the street lights came on
I am drifting again
the platforms encourage it
to stay with anything too long
is to risk an explanation; best to just
STFU, if you know what’s good for you
years later Sophie finds me, emails
“You should be on Twitter!”
I reply for an hour, then hit delete
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