now that I'm
up andI've found my diverse and sundry misgivings
coalesced into one distinct dread:
completion
scares the
out of me
If I can be done with a poem
who is to say that I can't be done with?
and though I still may be abandoned
clutching incomplete couplets to my
at least I won't be alone
no need for
we interrupt this broadcast for breaking news-in-progress
or mystery novels with the endings torn
these omissions ensure
I will always have a familiar
to return to
yet even though I don't have the
to put an end to this
I won't be spiteful
everyone, person and poem
deserves a final
perhaps someone more
than I
would like to have
the last