25 october

and now i will reach
out to the universe and ask
questions of the hopeful sort
of variety -- the kind of requests
you expect and also fear
will be either embraced or discarded
because those are the only options
a melodramatic retelling will allow
not to mention predictive verses
for better or forever hold
pieces of dreams without building
anything or putting them together
into a better idea than now
when i have a headache again
but no reason not to
try to sleep anyway