Saturday, January 29, 2005

1574

I don't believe
that cameras steal
your soul
which may explain
why I don't take
pictures of people

the homeland security ban
on subway photography
protects me from
seeing myself in cartoons
of a baby mouse
left in a bundle
at the door

to wit, it's not a quality
of the young woman
in old woman clothes with
a quatrain in ball point
on the back of her hand
I wanted to see again
or forget, whatever

the work order says
that's the one thing I won't do