1. This is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold taken critter was cage punishing being bad it was sad playful lonely

2. This is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold read words book doubt I’m so far away imperfect don’t Judge me

3. This is just to say that I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold taken life was your hands wanting to last forever I was driving so drunk and now she was

4. Excepting the diner on the outskirts the town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but for my headlights and up and in One second-story room A single light

5. Where someone was sick or perhaps reading as I drove past at seventy not thinking This poem is for whoever had the light on

6. Excepting the diner on the outskirts the town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but for my headlights and up and in One second-story room A single light that is was still a tie team of kids the ballpark sad Of the ballpark hit scoreboard whenout

7. Where someone was sick or perhaps reading as I drove past at seventy not thinking This poem is for whoever had the light on luck ran rejoicing hit the the winning run with skill orby home platethen

8. Excepting the diner on the outskirts the town of Ladora At 3 a.m. Was dark but for my headlights and up and in One second-story room A single light blind Hulbert still where a deer gave snort woods down at the bait pile in movement

9. Where someone was sick or perhaps reading as I drove past at seventy not thinking This poem is for whoever had the light on smelling walked past ends up eating my venison steaks eating