early registry

been plotting    
a bit lately    
with the poltergeists of past;    
self-diagnosis    
and its medicine    
   
it's not memory    
or nostalgia    
 
no  
 
    the rogue electricians    
    have rewired    
    the roadways    
     
it's an alternate list of necessity    
as decreed by auto-shrink    
   
    1. breathe    
    2. oil the escape hatch    
   
   
    3. everything else    
   
(regret is for tomorrows couch,    
and tomorrow has been banished from the list)    
   
   
   
these are not the ignoring type    
of banshee    
   
these are the shrieks of shadows  
that you sew your mouth shut  
   
or  
   
sing along to