As grim as in "you gotta hike out here quick or die"
I like this, Ken. Got me laughing, heartily.
Stephen V
> POST-IT NOTES: A LOVE STORY
>
> I leave messages for you all over the house.
>
> I avoid the refrigerator magnets.
>
> Post-Its on the mattress will do.
>
> Post-Its on the pillow are better than chocolates.
>
> They stick nicely to the cat who appears not to mind.
>
> She is your cat I borrow her as I would bum a cigarette.
>
> One disposable dangerous item is very much like another.
>
> I don't know why I bother with notes for you don't read them.
>
> I can't stay here
> I can't live this way
> I've met someone I like better
> There nothing left
> Dead on the inside
> Gone perpetually limp
> By the time I get to Phoenix
>
> There is a New Egypt in New Jersey but not a New Phoenix.
>
> Make It New said Uncle Ez and we have taken it to heart.
>
> Everything but this torpid place this silent existence.
>
> We make nothing new only the new way to shrug a shoulder.
>
> I wonder if the cat will miss me for 10 minutes when I'm gone.
>
> When her buddy died four years ago she grieved for three days then
> tore up a window curtain.
>
> Maybe when I am gone (ha) she will tear up you.
>
> Y'think?
>
> KTW/2-15-06
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