Withered Spoon

You're probably pissed

that I vouched extensively 

over the phone

as to how valid a candidate he was

for 20 emphatic minutes

when you were interviewing 

potential tenants

for your shared rental apartment

since there was a ton 

of work to be done

as promised in unwritten portions

of his lease that you might as well shred

at this point in your grievance.

I'm more pissed

that my adopted brother's in rehab again

and didn't reach out to me

before he surrendered his phone

so I've got no way of knowing

what it was this time

how close he came

or how he's doing

aside from what's chirped

down the line.

Godspeed with your eviction.

Our rent's always punctual

but we are not the same.