<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 22px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">My List</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I have written my list in Mandarins</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Soaked it in tea</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">This gives it the age</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">that nothing possesses these days</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On it I place all of the things</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I want but are no longer available</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Like empty shelves</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">These lines lead down the page</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Into the impossibility of the smallest things</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Sentimentality silences there</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And cliche eats at the image</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Of a white baby on a rocking horse</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The sense of the peal</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">is a joke</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Written by a drunk</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In a car</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On a road</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">At night</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In the rain</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It is my way of escaping this moment</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And all of the things I don’t want</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">But have</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Alex Wisser</span></div></body></html>