who you been reading
people ask me
who you reading these days
and I say exes
you know
formally known as tweets
no seriously the people reply
what authors are you into
—like you know
who you been reading
I’ve been reading exes mostly I say
things like micropoems
and very short stories
captions of really cool paintings
or photographs of birds & mountains
streams & rivers & oceans
or just about anything
that pops into your mind
with no further questions
I begin to believe
the people don’t really like me
making me start to think
maybe I should write a slightly
nasty poem about them
august two thousand twenty-three
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