Because

I learned early to cherish everything as though it was
the most important thing in an unimportant world
and that there is a dear price attached to the release
of anything

(screw the bird...it won’t come
back... it won’t)

I have not thrown a word away.  Ever.  Not even
the most hurtful word, the one that digs the Spam
out of whatever I avow to be my elemental self. 

I am landlocked
and faltering in this evolving storyscape.