concurrent

little stashes , the last of the lasts
folded into bags,box stuffed, dug

up from hiding .  squirrels to nuts
 in winter, the water table sinks and rises

with the coming of the green, the going
 the gone  of the green, hurricane tied

light the bong, remember this wood.
it's time to get cigarettes and mail

the packages you sold last week.
don't worry about the bumps on the way

new virus incubating, maybe old
age. but really, the st. john's flows  north.

.

devil you don't

can't say i didn't know how much
crap you had before i let you move
in but  i had no idea such
things would make so heavy a   love..

like you, it's not the one thing or
another but all combined which
despite your warning, weigh much more
than i thought they would. not to bitch

but can't you find the time to group
the things alike into boxes
instead of this dish cable soup?
my house is now a den for foxes

  tunnels, warrens wind to the door
that let you in. don't make me want
to kick you out again. no more
saying you can't deal, you  gavotte

at  fairgrounds despite your ordeal.
you mismanage time and money
and say you can't buy me a meal.
well i got news for you honey

something will one day give way
  free me from your sexual sway
if only for a day. what's left
had best be all that fills the cleft.

open letter to ebay

Dear CEO,

     I am a top seller this month for ebay! Last month as well. While this would normally bestow a sense of accomplishment in meeting ebay's criteria for doing business,  I am instead confused, dismayed, frankly  distraught  because I've been banned from selling on ebay during both these months. In fact, I've been indefinitely banned, with no sensible explanation why given to me. I keep getting top seller notices.   I cannot understand how this state of affairs has come to pass.

     I have tried-to no avail- to get someone in customer service to explain how this has happened  and to try to reverse it. . I know I was on restrictions for being below standards the previous 2 months, but this was due to a false complaint which  has since been rendered invalid by your own customer service department.  Are your human interfaces able to override automaticaly generated algorithms that prove I am a worthy seller? Is, perhaps, someone in your customer  service department  on a vendetta to make ebay look bad and lose money?

   I enjoyed selling on ebay, I was making a comfortable margin, working for myself. Basically, I feel
 like  I've been fired with no warning or cause. But I'm making inroads at Amazon, etsy and dishwish. so thanks, I guess, for pushing me out of the nest.

And I think it's only fair that since you're the ones who jilted me, you stop sending me teasers about how much you love me as a seller. If you want to reconsider...maybe check into  those bipolar tendencies.

Sincerely
an ex