for Gary

There is still a vital underground

predictive text won't tell you about,

where people say or write their own

words & decisions get made, hard

as they are to make, & not everyone

obeys in advance. Or after the fact,

but after the fact there's so few people

left to be counted. So few people left

able to fit into their own imagination,

unable to converse w/ anyone, much

less themselves, virgins to their own

thoughts until it's too late, past due—

there are no collections & no bills

posted. Nothing said in ones & zeroes.