Do not repeat yourself.
Do not repeat yourself.
Habits are hard to break.
Habits are hard to break.
Repeat: Hard. Break. Habits
Are not to do yourself.

Why do you look that way?
Why do you look that way?
Am I so very strange to you?
Am I so very strange to you?
To look way strange, why that?
So you do. I am very you.

The days go slipping by.
The days go slipping by.
Before you can catch them.
Before you can catch them.
Slipping before you go,
Catch them. Days. By the can.

Habits catch you slipping
By yourself. Look to the
Hard days. Am I to go?
Way before them, do not
Break. You repeat why so you are
That can do. Very strange.











From Poetry Magazine, July 2006. Used with permission.