In Quotes
Which should I do first, make my bed
or write this poem. In the poem my bed
is already made, but in my bed I dream
in poems. If only I could write my dreams
as poems, but they would only come out
as tap-dances, such as the one you are
now hearing. In the dream I was racing
naked through the night, a dagger in
my teeth, a rose in my hand. Or was
it the other way around? Anyhoo,
it didn’t have much to do with anything
but tap-dancing once I put it down
on “paper.” I put paper in quotes because
it’s really just binary code on a screen.