Dear Savannah
thank you for thinking of me
frank and co are such slobs
there s always plenty for me
to eat down in the kitchen
if you wouldn t mind leaving
some cake crumbs every once
in a while that d be great
that s the one thing fatso and
his wife are careful with
i notice you ve been changing
poem titles so they have capital
letters that s fine i guess that
should really keep the editors
believing you wrote this stuff
recently i started thinking of
going on a trip somewhere
no more tickets no conductors
i realized i m footloose just like
always i guess walking out into
the world alone is frightening
one wrong move and i m
squashed but really i m
freer than i ve ever been if
you don't hear from me for
a while i m probably on a
big boat headed to india
i always wanted to go to india
i have a feeling i ll find someone
over there who really understands
me not that you don t savannah
maybe there are roaches over there
like me every roach i ve talked to
in these parts has such paltry dreams
there s no way they were ever people
don t worry about me my friend
i ll be back in due time and we
can pick up where we left off
i hope you find a job and i hope
you don t make any other roach
friends while i m gone your
jealous maddy
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