Responsibilities

A check for
one thousand
one hundred
and
fifty eight
dollars
arrives by
mail.

It would be
suitable
to support
several
exhibitions
of utter barely
confinable madness
or
abject flight
to
New Orleans
San Francisco
Seattle.

But I will
use it
to settle
an
outstanding
construction
debt.

Another
lukewarm
under spiced
ladle
of
bourgeois
practicality soup
please.

I may soon
contract
my
own
assassination.