tiny chores

I read tiny chores make men virile;
I know "what are you doing?" implies the answer "nothing."
Hoarding is our best defense
against
the apocalypse.
"Bottle Return," is the 13th step.
Expired buss tickets are our only proof
we were alive.
poetry is unsuited to tackling the civic guilt
of homelessness (as is Microsoft Word). 
The will to write surviving into middle age is
as sign of weakness. 
My memories of you all are either leverage or
tiny chores.