chapter one: adoption

phase one is writing a poem.

no.

phase one is staying up from now until six in the morning, buying that poetry book, reading that one poem on the walk back to my dorm, then writing a poem. hope my printer still works.

no.

phase one is thinking about the poem I'm going to write in response to the poem I haven't read yet, but should have read, i.e. at a time other than six thirty in the morning, walking back from the bookstore.

no.

phase one is thinking about all the stuff I was doing instead of buying and reading that book, or what I was not doing, i.e. reading/buying/writing that book.

I need a book of poetry to read and write a poem about. I need to write about a poem I read about and read what I wrote about. I need to write what I read about and put it in a book of poems. I need to buy it and write a poem about it, but only after I've read everything, which I really should've done earlier.

I'm bad at these things, yes.