I Keep a Gun for Alexander

I have no need

of one myself

I keep it

in this drawer

and the bullets

in the one below.

I keep it

just in case

though I have

no idea

what he might

need it for.

I have learned

I forget what

I am doing

even while doing it.

And I worry

the red dye

in these pills

may give me the pain

I take them for.

Hello, I am

Alexander.