Belligerent Poetry

ready to go

ready to go
all day preparing
planning thinking acting
buying shorts
(a great relief following yesterday)
boxers socks to go with pens, books & shoes
thinking through plans for
imminent departure
not really packed yet
writing this instead
but knowing
that i'm going
is enough to let me out
Rome again
after just two years
how short they are
backwards.

-5.16.03