Care

                               I don't care about you
                               I don't care about your life
                               I don't care about your family or
                                   all the effort you have invested over the years

                               Your time means nothing to me
                                You have no rights in my world
                                You have no value to me
                                 you are nothing

                                therefore it is okay with me for you to not exist
                                therefore it is okay with me for you to die
                                therefore I have just erased your existence

                                then you are gone
                                and I am left with the thought of removing you
                                there you have forever a place in my life
                                until I FORGET

     
                               
                                SITTING ON THE  SEAT IN THE SUBWAY CAR
                                 his head buried beneath his turtle neck sweater
                                 like the turtle protecting himself from danger
                                 he withdraws his brain and protects himself
                
                                 the car is crowded, people standing breathing
                                 in each others faces

                                 next to him there are five empty seats
                                  around him no one is standing
                                  they are all, the people in the car
                                  are watching the headless sweater
                                  they, all. are ready, poised to run
                                  ready for danger

                                  she, exhausted, sits besides him, she
                                  must sit, her legs and feet hurt beyond
                                  the fear of danger

                                  he smells the tobacco on her clothes
                                   he senses someone close
                                   slowly his head surfaces above the
                                    the folds of the sweater
                                  
                                   she looks down towards the floor
                                    she notices on his wrist the bracelet
                                    the one that is always awarded when
                                    you become a resident at a medical facility
                                   
                                     he asks her for a cigarette
                                     she offers him one if he would not light it on the train
                                     he agrees
                                      she gives him the cigarette
                                     he has his own matches and lights the cigarette

                                     the train car soon fills with the aroma of warm tobacco
                                     on the tag on his wrist she notices his name
                                     Carl

                                     I don't care about you
                                     I don't care about your life
                                     I don't care about your family
                                     or  all the effort you have invested over the years