the best inquirers always begin
with a disclaimer:
personal question.
this will be awkward but.
have you ever not.
clearly you don’t mean.

and folk who talk this way
make terribly interesting
friends. the kind you want
to box up and ship somewhere
else just to get them out
of your life and in to some
service where they’re stamped
with a number and their
movements are tracked for
all to see (including yourself)
but then when you do get
rid of them, you find you
terribly miss sharing your
tobacco over a pipe and some
beer.