the short answer is "it depends."
"do you mind?" the clerk asked me
curtly and flatly
though surely as friendly as anyone has to be
certainly he in the service industry
so to him i replied
smiling wider than cyanide
only my own business, my friend.
//
i minded it here, while my mind was adrift
sifting the samples of silent insists
sipping and spanning the lines of interest
while skipping with animation's enlist.
do i mind? only those so apropos
worth minding
the only who my heart eschews
i'm finding
do i find myself winding up
till my mind's made up to
to sleep stretched out 'longside
the embers of a haunting docile.
//
finding domicile 'side a smile
while whispers from expatriots
make lace and less and less of sense
from all the frills and tassels
thrills and castles combing bare
a pestilence
tried along so many tiers
of tired miles-- making tears of
tares and tariffs, tolls and barracks
taking turns to train
the eloquence of rain
and tame the ambulance of a waning
wanting
unto the countryside.

only then do i mind.

./fish