Analyses

Things I'm not:

Christlike.

Able to fix my dead 

grandmother's antique and bequeathed

dresser drawer handle.

Things I am:

Decent at calculating risk.

Proficient at finding cigarette lighters

on the pavement

and using them until they run out of fuel.

Things I don't strive to be:

Dumb enough

to open that damn drawer

ever again.

Christlike.

Rasputin's Assassins

Let's suppose

since we're being frank 

that there's no way 

to properly process

what's entailed

in quantifying

this tower-bound recovery

as a neighbor put it

for herself

but a gentleman's work

is never done

and neither is mine.

"Of course

I'm here.

First one."