Quick confession
mea culpa
recusatory statement: 
I calibrate the mirror so as to  
not interfere 
with my self-concocted image. 
you'd love it.
Come along with me on my bicycle and all my neighborhood friends. 
faculty meeting this morning!
which means pedalling extra hard. 
won’t have time for the suicidal Chihuahua, Ben
running along complaining again 
of Tobias 
the deer humper 
and his bloody no good taser.