no wishing for more wishes

[mylifeinajar]

i wrote a bad poem that was relevant to you and me alone so i decided not to post it.

i'm going to meet someone
in this crumbled institution
who has something to say to me
other than the weather or the news
or how i should see myself.
(on especially enlightened nights,
i don't even see myself at all.)
but when it drip drops down to it,
the really mean thing is
theirs are some of my favorite expectations
time and again, relentlessly
ignored by the powers (me) that be.

(the stuff in the parenthesis is extra important.)