the rabbit is the reason

I’ll be gone by the time you read this,
lost in the shapeless unease
of a year without sleeping
in laundry baskets.

I almost died last night,
but I cut it short
because that decision deserves Montreal
or Manhattan.

It’s only 10pm,
but I am gross
and tired,
wanting to be better

It’s raining on 86 and Lex only,
and it's raining on Rue Sherbrooke,
and I eat the street without an umbrella
because I don't believe in umbrellas.

One day always
finds a way
to resolve
from skin to sky.

And the reasons why,
oh my, how they run
away like rabbits
from a fox.

You can slice me right
eight ways to Monday,
but you can eat my heart,
because it’s mine, all mine.