I shall create! If not a note, a hole./If not an overture, a desecration. - Gwendolyn Brooks

It is not necessary, says Yvonne,
to have every day with him whom
to the end thereof you will love.
Because it is tasty to remember
he is alive, and laughs
in somebody else’s room.
or is slicing a cucumber,
or is buttoning his cuffs,
or is signing with his pen
and will plan
to touch you again.

Hateful things sometimes befall the hateful
but the hateful are not rendered lovable thereby.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.