My Criminal Notebook

I am stealing things All the time.
I steal what I can from everywhere,

The light, the air, The music that matters most to me.
I carry them away neatly, invisible in word

Valises, inside unfathomable
Thoughts, attached to the magnet

Harvest of a song I'm singing-nobody,
Nobody is the wiser- I carry everything away with me

Using rhyme dollies and spelling knots.
The police have not caught on.

But I am at large,
Unwieldy, and unstoppable.

I walk freely
Every day, anywhere, all the time

In spite of having stolen
Horses and kisses-the stars themselves,

More than one, more than once.
I steal, I steal,

I have always stolen.
Be careful of me. When you see me,

Speak quietly and do little.
Do not let me notice you.

Get away
If you want to be safe.

Get away.