Number One
Tell your roommate to hide all the knives
because you will carve her name on all pieces of furniture.
Number Two
Cut your nails
because you will still try to carve her name on all pieces of furniture.
Number Three
Give away your furniture
because carvings of her name will remind you of her.
Number Four
Carve her name on everything
until her name looks more like vandalism
and less like the name of someone who carved something out of you.
Carve her name until it looks less than the war cry
that you will lay your heart for,
less than the title of the song that keeps you up at night,
less than the poem that makes you get up every morning.
Though she is
was
is
your everything and nothing,
carve her name.
You have to.