Please Don’t Take My Solitude Personally

tittle (n) a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic or the dot
on a lowercase i or j.

There are two
shades of pink &
brown on this wall.

I once said that
Chai sums to 18 if Ch 
is given the value 8.

Seven.

I am unsure if I will
ever want to see you
again. Future tense.

I count ten tittles
in this poem so far.

Thirteen. 
Fourteen.

Tonic water & Tang
taste great mixed
together. You said.

I’m frightened by
all the ways I don’t
want to know you.

Eighteen.
Nineteen.
Twenty