Don’t take it personally,
They said to me.
But, Of course I take it personally.
- Tony Hoagland

The way the wind makes
my hair fall into my face so I can’t see;

how my family always takes
my moose tracks ice cream, and leaves me with none;

how the icecaps have decided to melt
and make all of those polar bears die;

how the economy has plummeted,
putting my parents out of a job;

How you insult me
and don’t say it to my face,

how the tulips bloom
when I am not around.