Tad Richards
	Deconstructing With Sookie               Deconstruction is here to help but institutions are too heavy              to dismantle before sunset.                           - Anny Ballardini Sookie loves to dismantle institutitions but she’s forgotten her tools or so she says and she’s trapped in the elevator between the tenth and eleventh floors says she needs help but you help Sookie at your own peril anyway she has her own plan for deconstruction she does it at night cloudy climes and starless skies most of the time it’s me she’s deconstructing Sookie says you have to tear down the barricades starting with mine but hers never give
	Negotiating With Sookie Sookie’s eyes are slits, The table a crescent, Or maybe a serpent. Her shirt scoop-necked, but I won’t let shapes distract me. Sookie thinks she’s backed me Into a corner. She’s called For binding arbitration. She demands reparation, But there’s no third party. She waves off the objection, Says she’ll take that role on, She’s got three rings, the largest a carnelian cat’s-eye, fierce in its intensity. Sookie begins to prowl. She stops at the thermostat Conveniently set at Eighty five degrees. She begins disrobing. Her questions get more probing. What did I mean? Did I really Think…? Was I getting wise? What Sookie doesn’t realize Is that she doesn’t stand a chance. I know what she doesn’t: I’ll give her anything she wants.