I have no idea what’s going on
in my patent sort of way.
maybe I’ll figure something out
someday.
I have three fakes on my face,
three jakes on my plate.
I have a sorrowful continuum.
Honey I got disorders on
disorders, stacked in play.
Honey I’m in between things.
I’m like a divider in a spreadsheet.
Honey I can’t generate anything
meaningful.
Honey I got a disease,
honey please.
I have no idea where I am,
found at sea,
lost in the weeds,
sordid normal
personal feats.
Trouble comes in threes.
A man who might be
in love with me,
a girl who certainly is.
An infection in my
intestines.
Something help me,
please.
It’s so uncertain.
A woman in Western
Mass who I want to see.
Who I want to marry.
And isn’t that some insanity?
No strong feelings
outside of my anxiety.
I could go either way.
Everything seems to
be outside of me,
and I guess that’s okay.
Will he leave me be?
Will she be okay?
Will she like it?
Will she like me?
What’ll happen to me?
Will I be okay?
I’m doing my best,
I really am.
It’s not for lack of trying,
this I can promise.
I just have no idea
what’s going to happen
this week, or the next.
Room. Walls. Low silver
light, blueish beige. TV
screen, dirty laundry.
Tupperware full of calories.
The door. The world. It’s
loud. The noise.
I don’t make a habit of
submitting.
Pathological need for
hands on the levers
of this cockpit.
In the end it isn’t
up to me.
And anger comes in,
but it can’t deliver me.
I am a sufferer.
I am disordered.
I cannot face this
naturally.
I cry a little, but it
doesn’t feel safe.
As soon as it starts,
a strange non-monologous
thought, a switch,
an angle, as if seen
in perspective, from
the corner, one hundred
eighty degree turn,
I’m being watched.
I’m trying to get better
at everything.
It’s barely a dent and
my head feels worse than
when I started.
Who’s watching you?
Well they are, slick.
Are they here?
Well I won’t be caught
unawares.
Can you be specific?
About what?
Who’s watching you?
Oh, you know,
mom and them.
the place that contains the list of the containers of words