Dear Henry

Incidently

You screwed yourself

I was willing to do

What you wanted me to do

But now you are on your own

And I will explain myself later

I will call tomorrow

And sort it all out

You can sit on your doubt

And keep that chair warm

It's not that I don't want to

Go there today

I just forgot

About having to go

And then when I remembered

I also remembered

Something that they said

That made me wish

That I had another job instead

Of pleasing those

Who can't be pleased

And treating me

As though I should be

Perpetually

On my knees

Blow yourself

If you please

Because I have learned

Not to tease

Grab a lion

By its tail

And listen to it wail

Like stepping on

A rusty nail

Or having a hole

In your water pail

With what should I fix it?

Dear Lyza?

With a cork,

Dear Henry!

But there is no cork

Big enough

To fit in this hole

In my soul