retrospect of sugary diets- I ate that?

The young men leave, they say, to hitchike in France
because they want the old world, and what better place to find it?
cathedrals are old, so they go.

Curls, and a ten-cent anthology
and the icing.  You like the icing
and so you eat it sitting in a desk

and nobody tells the men why the world is new
and nobody uses the desk
work around it, curls.

that's all I can bear, and so
I will never bake bread.
This is a note return-adressed refrigerator;
hello.  Passing by you,
I cannot read your mind on sidewalks.

Which is what's so hard about the old world
because I would like to shout
cathedrals are no longer in style
hitchiking is dangerous
for a woman like me.


-Citron