I apologize
if you were expecting me
not to write you poems,
or if you didn't mean
to mean much to me.
I should have mentioned
I fall easily
. . . when I feel safe,
and warned you
to be very mean
and tell me you don't care,
and not to open doors
or apologize or kiss me
and to never, never
make me smile.
As it is, I tripped and fell
over everything about you,
and I can't help
but write you poems.
katie 4/99