IF I EVER WAS:

I TELL YOU NOW

I AM NOT.

i am not.

no.

nope.

no way.

i will not be.

my lover,

please send me

to my grave before

i am another janet frame

or another cilla mcqueen.

let me never be

poet laureate of

this country.

all anyone ever

wants to do is

watch the paint

dry on the fence.