Such things are worth noting

10/27/04
9:51 pm
Such things are worth noting,

i thought, upon entering my apartment.

a parched throat had me
travel downstairs to
Alice's Deli
and purchase some drinks
while readings of estlin
implored me to record
such routine things
and laminate them
in the eternal plastic wrapping
of literature.

now plaques can be discarded
in dresser drawers to be excavated
and amorously adored
with seasons sprawling & spilling

like they once did
from me.

if only i were more grown as a writer
and my hands, more sensitive.