-certified alternate-

          
          you may have inadvertently knocked at the door to the wrong house.

          'could be you've run into the wrong man regardless of poetry.
          even so, I'll accept your arrival as a positive response to an invitation.

          nothing said this early in the morning will urge you to sit at the edge of your seat.

          there’ll be no revelations or titillations and to be clear,

          even a spritz of truth gleaned from the institution is enough when

          counter-storytellers of the subject matter are are either

          dead or uninvolved or nincompoops.

          they should've written their own damn poems.

          sure, there'll be deep-throated grunts of disapproval and

          sure, the antagonist will demand peer review documentation

          but goddamn! I'm just daydreaming for christsake. 

          2014