Sanitation

Wash your hands with extra soap

before you say what you mean.

If it needs to be said,

write it down, before

what hasn’t been said

overtakes it.

There are three rules to letting go:

cut strings, say things,

and follow the stages of grief.

There are no rules to

doing things right—

the church, the city,

the family forms

the structure of

“right” and “wrong”;

but there are no rules.

Nothing means anything

anymore,

but what isn’t being said

means everything

and changes nothing.

If your hands are dirty,

sanitize, and

leave no evidence

when you go.