Twenty-Nine Post-Its Because I Couldn't Talk To You

Twenty-Nine Post-Its Because I Couldn’t Talk To You Keith M. Harris (bio) This pack of post-its was all I had to write on. So you know you’re wrong. You could have at least let me in. I know you were home because I saw the back of your head when you turned and dropped the curtain. This is how you wanted it to go down, with me walking around your building, shouting. But I am not going out like that. And you know this. We could have talked it through. Instead, you won’t take a phone call won’t answer the door, and what’s more you have made me the fool who you have to treat this way. Do you understand me? Do you understand I am ashamed of myself and angry at you. I don’t understand how I let this happen to me. And where are you? Now I don’t even care. When the sun comes up tomorrow, you will find these post-its, which could have been cute under different circumstances. Under these they make me look bad, so I’ll leave them and not look back. I won’t come back either, won’t call won’t answer my door. Just like you have done to me. I hope you feel foolish. But there is a good chance you won’t feel anything. There is a a good chance these post-its will mean nothing to you. If so, throw them to the wind. [End Page 883] Keith M. Harris Keith M. Harris is an associate professor of English and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He has published poems in Corpus, Queen: A Journal of Power and Rhetoric, Road Before Us, and My Brother’s Keeper. His essays have appeared in Wide Angle, The Spike Lee Reader, Richard Pryor: The Life and Legacy of a “Crazy” Black Man, and War Diaries. He is also author of Boys, Boyz, Bois: An Ethics of Masculinity in Popular Film, Television and Video, published by Routlege in 2006. Copyright © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press

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