this.

Wharton

I will not succumb to the pressures

of this twenty-first century idea

of life’s greatest treasures.

I will trash on your Wharton books

and stomp on your Blackberries

before you can BBM for help.

I want people because stick figures

don’t suite my desires

I need that inside.

There’s no emergency button

to get you out

of this beautiful mess.