when you are feeling lonely
and want some sort of reassurance,
and then when you don't
it's because you've met someone.
How long is this going to last?
a rapidly thinning-then-expanding ego
may make you modify this habit.
What’s more, I discovered there were many parts of the world
in which my New York City-poet-style baksheesh love
is considered eccentric.
Whilst cheery sportswomen hunt the coyote,
as blithely as they can,
'tis mine, as I “Tantivy!” cry
to hunt the missing Plan!