I DON'T CARE ANYMORE

I don’t care anymore

and the next word is hole

a very tiny arrangement

with sphincter-like musculature

and the guillotine decisiveness

of an old-fashioned single lens reflex

yeah

camera

not obscura

more the fuck you ra

because I don’t care

and there’s so much I don’t care about

so much that will not fit through that

tiny pinprick

if it doesn’t fit then sayonara suckers

with all your politicizing your bureaucratizing

your proselytizing your capitalizing your

monetarizing your theorizing your down-

sizing and your upsizing I’m done I’m through

the magazine subscription reorder forms

make great book markers anyway and landfill

does it ever reach the recycling center?

Oh yeah I forgot

I don’t care

excuse me while I take a sip

brush a hair from the page

filter out the sound of a passing mynah

sit up straighter so the breath

will find my toes

press my thumb against the table edge

just so

think of Kipling Empire and dead queens

which reminds me of that nonsense

about the champagne and Kalakaua

I’d drink too wouldn’t you?

but the military outfits...

my hand isn’t fast enough to say it with ink

and these abstractions begging me to say

Get knotted calligraphers of the world!

Untie or die!

Do you care? Do I care if you do or don’t care?

And that rhymes with not fair their share

who’s the mayor and she’s a player

Bayer Bayer your beehive’s on fire

and the beetles don’t even like honey

I don’t care so much it hurts

I woke up last night talking to a ghost

and she said you have to stop caring

but she didn’t say “anymore”

like the raven or not like the raven

She said just stop