ALT Link to the poem: https://aprweb.org/poems/a-catalog-of-how-are-you-doings5

ALT I Let the Foxes Live Squeeze of clementine in the gin and tonic, supple leather gloves the better to scoop the birds who stun themselves against my bay window, the birds most likely the language of my dead loved ones urging me to drink less, exercise more. Well I don't want to hear it! I love the world so like a reasonable man I build little bird chateaus, assemble little bird neighborhoods, organize feathered soirees. I pocket seed and scatter it for miles--- when did the dead ever scatter birdseed for miles? Someone on Twitter said to make sure you marry a husband not a boyfriend so I’m trying my best to be a good husband to the world, I don't give it flowers, I lice- pick beer cans and candy wrappers from its hirsute shoulders, I comb its hills with my rolling body, I let the foxes live beneath my shed, I leave holes in my fence for rabbits to escape the foxes. I don't need advice from people who have nothing to do with the world but be in it! (continued)