By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 17 December 1999

Loss of a Cherished Paperback

You stole my Abbie Hoffman *Steal This Book* 
paperback from me, you witless bastard
Like everything else
I guess you took the title literally
Before you met me
You had never even heard of Beavis and
Butthead and Jack and Chrissy and Janet
let alone Abbie Hoffman
you knew nothing about the Yippie Revolution
or Kerouac or Ginsberg or Leary or Kesey
you thought Cherry Garcia
was a politically correct
ice-cream flavor for Hispanic
orchard workers
you dork
you dweeb
you fuckin' prep school reject
I hope karma kicks your ass
I hope you die
and come back
as an overtly intelligent 
white chic
who falls in love
with losers