The Top 25 Girls Names In The Year I Was Born

In class we say Harjo, Whitman

and I hope I never become a last name:

Adderley writes that

Yeah right.

Adderley don't know a damn thing.

Adderley means snakelike.

I have mixed feelings about that.

I steal myself to be a grave,

some lonesome lithograph.

Then say: no, not that.

The arrogance it takes to say!

I changed my mind.

I'll be a name on a bathroom door instead

Slander and scratch marks.

I'll be spanish Ava.

I'll be a bicycle brand.

I'll be a sun stain.

I'll be an awkward black-in fade

at the end of an awkward theater B play.

I'll be asleep by the end of it--

you'll see.