Because I could not stop
being clever—being
clever kindly
stopped working-
out for me. I still felt that I
was wise
to notice
it, however—not to mention
make plenty—of unnecessary
references
to enrich
and enliven—the transmitted
sensation of my poverty;
but thank
god (or—really,
whomever! I surmised rather quickly
internally to my own pretty
clean little death)
nobody else
out there! seemed likely
to catch them.
