there was no poem today.
i know you’re seeing one now,
but
there was no poem today.

the thing you’re reading
is an artifice,
a false artifact,
post-written and post-dated
(pre-dated?)
to make the tallied streak continue.

and though it is false,
it isn’t exactly un-true,
for some days i write so much
and some days i don’t share all
and some days i steal from the past,
so today i decided to give back to it instead,

and besides,
i made my own rules for this,
and i decided long ago this isn’t breaking them
at all.