I’d rather be wrong to be right

I listen to you out loud

Telling me:

"Do not bother to contact me,

Do not contact me to bother me."

I’d rather be wrong to be right

My Alaskan malamute

will keep me company

While vacationing in Turks and Caicos

With my friend

From Kuala Lumpur

Who will bring me Manuka Honey

from New Zealand

When back in New York,

I will vacate the house

You will vacate my life

I will not negotiate

The terms of my surrender

But instead,

You will surrender to negotiate

To negotiate whatever terms in your mind,

There are no thousand ways to die

Au contraire

There are ten thousand ways to live.