it’s an
affidavit
it’s a
legal statement
it’s a watertight contract
like the ones that
they got (give
me a
break!) the
Nobel Prize for
it’s hermetically sealed
not a dotted line
the fine print is
not there but
it is
because, you see,
subliminal
it’s lemon-scented,
laminated,
on papyrus quality
Egyptian Thoth god paper
not that
scrappy shit upon
which is scrawled
the social contract
just one-ply, recycled
and when
I said scrawled in
reality I meant daubed
