Getting Around the Subject

Ways that I avoid calling you: etymology, falling into a shallow ditch
and asking for a shovel. A blog: (insert here your favorite
de-clutterer).
What can you tell me about the ether that stripped you
from my birth, that split you from you, as do
all calls to service?

Ways that I avoid l
time table's breakfast bells, a shift
ing it straight from you: a photocopied
in river courses, other cues. Even music,
the silhouette of shoes
taped to the floor. I tollow arrows and numbers and arrive

in someone else's arms.
Look here-dip-is
what it's like
to barter.
A cat (thought a hare)-twirl twice-skinned, from
the black market.

And then there's the system in which I direct all questions at you in
the form
of answers. I commandeer the test site and also assist
the cheaters. What will you say
when the results are in? Take me to the museum? Not
likely.

Ways that I avoid your practiced evasion? Cooking as it
I were divorcing my parents. Dear Reader, you know ways to
cut in halt: sugar, salt, fat? Ways to spend the evening,
listening to a temperance lecture.
Or, bring down
the china
for the big idea visitor,