i am afraid of this poem

TAO LIN

on a friday night
i open my fortune cookie
a little too eagerly

you are going to have some new clothes
it says

and i eat it
because i don't want anyone to know
that this happened, that on a friday night

i open my fortune cookie
a little too eagerly

and i eat it
because i don't want anyone to know

that it says
you are going to have some new clothes

and i eat it
a little too eagerly

on a friday night
because i don't ever want anyone to know anything
it says

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