What I Had to Have

on Giuliani, on Guillén

As with a belief or palmed head: held. Tenet.
Tenant. Not even a small room. Tangible.
Tenebrous. I have, let’see, a having way.
Addiction, you could say. Tendency, you could say.
Habit. Habitat, as in a threshold. Tender. Tenacious.
What I had to have: tenable.