Thrashing Seems Crazy

this is true a man in an alley grabbed my arm this is true someone called me and left the phone dangling at the post office this is true a man stalked me someone tells a story someone tells a story to another person another person says I don't believe this someone tells the story again in an attempt to convince someone tells as disbelief is easy belief is difficult, supported by constraint but a woman knows a man stalked her knows this is true a woman knows her own address her own body her lost domain, her desires, her confusions someone tells a story there are things people can do to themselves they are: leave molotov cocktail on own yard set fire to own house leave a glass of urine on own porch leave envelope of feces outside own door send a butcher knife to self at work send letter to health department that self is spreading VD stab own back someone tells this story says this is true self turns on self the knife enters at a point that the self could not have reached but did someone tells and then repeats and she stalks herself several times to convince someone tries to enter into the information to pass words back and forth that have meaning fails, resorts to this is true this is true a woman calls her stalker The Poet this is true a woman describes a stalker in terms that describe herself this is true a woman stalked herself to kill herself this is true a woman is at times a man when a fish is hooked other fish don't see the hook thrashing seems crazy the hook could be the branding of a woman at a young age by a man or an older male neighbor spending too much time with a child or the boring nature of life in the story the hook is the artist's rendering of the stalker as described by the woman it is the woman in a man's face she does not know this man thrashing seems crazy later she realizes it is herself her knife her hook her own face she was always drawing male this is true as thrashing is not crazy when one is on the hook