you've relegated me to one small box
a place in your life, Sunday morning
not every Sunday, but some Sundays
to work together on the tree house
and talk a little
well, you talk. I am supposed to listen
and give another perspective. I don't get to
pick the topic.
You don't answer emails: not the poems,
not the essays. I am not your Facebook friend,
we don't have dinner like civilized friends
you would not mention my birthday
nor will you take me out on your boat.
Holidays are on ignore. You even agreed
to watch my cat and left her, after one day.
you've relegated me to one small box
I climb out and wander the streets, howling
I am unedited, unwashed, unpredictable, unrelegated
howling about you and your treatment of me
Saffire: yeah