Deconstruction: Learning Java

I needed another language
to learn the difference
             between
direct and indirect,
objects and constraints.

What is returned
must be explicitly defined
by arguments, referenced
(in parentheses), kept
                       in a separate file.

Each class, compartmentalized.
Every package separated
by a period.
You could say: time.
Comma, a breath.
At the end of which:
call a method.

New line.

                       To move around, to live
for a while without
being possessed
by many things
            [first construct an array,
            then purge, to run(away)].

Another iteration begins,
examine the parameters.
A string can be anything;
a boolean: one of two.

A narrowing of options,
sequence of events.
Each If has a Then,
and (if written well),
an Else.

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Jesica Davis is a poet and technical writer originally from Chicago, currently not really living anywhere. She’s the Associate Editor for Inverted Syntax literary journal. Her work has appeared in The Laurel Review, Zone 3, streetcake magazine, Stoneboat, Storm Cellar, and other places. Jesica was the final Alice Maxine Bowie Fellow at Lighthouse Writers Workshop (2016-2017) and won the Tarantula Prize for Poetry (Pilgrimage Press, 2018). See jesicacarsondavis.net.