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POEM FOR YOUR FUCKING LITERARY MAGAZINE

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

WE SHOULD REALLY TALK ABOUT DORVID.
AT LEAST, I WOULD
LIKE TO TALK ABOUT HIM.
FINISH YOUR DRINK FIRST.
THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME
TO TALK ABOUT DORVID.
I MEAN, WE DON’T HAVE TO TALK
ABOUT HIM.
I JUST THINK YOU GUYS WOULD REALLY GET ALONG.
HE’S CRAZY!
BUT – TRUST ME – CRAZY IN A GOOD WAY.
AND,
YOU BOTH LIKE SNAKES.
YOU’RE STILL INTO SNAKES, RIGHT?
HE HAS TWO SNAKES. I THINK
ONE IS POISONOUS AND ALSO ILLEGAL.
AM I TALKING TOO MUCH ABOUT DORVID?
WE COULD JUST DESIGNATE SOME
TIME TO DORVID SO WE’RE BOTH
BETTER PREPARED, LIKE: THE SCHEDULED DAILY-DORVID-CHAT
IS AT THE SAME TIME EVERYDAY,
SO IT DOESN’T JUST COME OUT
OF NOWHERE.
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING FUNNY?
WHEN I FIRST MET DORVID,
I THOUGH HIS NAME WAS
“DORVIT” WITH A T.
THAT WAS EMBARRASSING!
I THOUGHT THAT WAS HIS NAME
FOR, LIKE,
THREE
WEEKS.
AND THEN, ONE OF HIS FRIENDS WAS LIKE: “YOU’RE SAYING IT WRONG,” AND,
I WENT RED AND SOMEONE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT
HOW THE IPAD IS A ‘GAME-CHANGER’
(I AGREE)
AND THEN I CONFESSED TO DORVID
ABOUT THE NAME CONFUSION AND
HE SAID – AND I THINK HE LAUGHED BEFORE HE SAID IT –
(YOU NEVER KNOW WITH DORVID. SO UNPREDICTABLE!!)
HE SAID: “OH. THAT’S FUNNY.” WHICH IS
COMPLETELY TRUE.
AND THEN IT WAS FINE AFTER THAT.
DORVID IS GREAT LIKE THAT. HE’S ALWAYS LIKE:
“WHATEVER! SHOTS!”
ANYWAY.
WHEN YOU FINISH YOUR DRINK
WE CAN TALK MORE ABOUT HIM.
DORVID.