HYSTERICAL NARRATIVE

Shouldn’t think so

I’ve been so thoughtless

Mispronounce hegemony

that’s nothing

Announce too candidly

my candidacy

Something I hardly know

protects itself from being happy

Years saunter by, increasingly devoid of lyric

thankful, they say, wheezing:

It’s all about your breath all about you breathing

every beta male needs a better Maud Gonne

Very well aware: close readings

find me lacking or treading or tactless or fruitless

But here’s something: it’s 4:07 a.m.

you are asleep; and I am in the midst of

an historical narrative