why alternates

you may have inadvertently knocked

at the door to the wrong house.

could be you’ve run headlong into

the wrong man regardless of location devices.

even so, I’ll regard your arrival as a positive

response to an invitation.

nothing said here so early in the morning

will encourage you to rise up from the edge of your bed.

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

counter storytellers of the subject matter either living or dead

or busybodies or nincompoops

should’ve submitted their opinions by the deadline.

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

sure, the antagonists will demand peer review documentation and

sure, Marciano broken and bleeding would’ve clocked Ali

with a “Suzy-Q” in the 15th, but...

damn! I’m just daydreaming, for chrissakes!