Gratuitous

Are you gratuitous? I’m gratuitous –

silly dillies with no function.

Like light bulbs or dead tuna fish

we lack the least compunction

to confess our crimes. Yet here

you are and I am too.

Neither far away nor near

enough to do what we would do

if we’d had just a little style, or guile.

Let’s inspect each other’s

malformations for a while.

Then let’s talk about our mothers.

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