the future

someone writes you
a letter, two pages.
it's a list of
what happens in
the remaining
years of your life.
it's your future,
such as it is.
you read down
the numbered
lines. it surprises
you what happens next,
and then follows
the year after.
there are detailed
footnotes that
try explain it all.
you don't see any
of it coming, some
good, some bad.
some forgetable things
too. friends die,
friends are born.
lovers cease to be
lovers and new ones
appear from the sky.
but in truth you don't
want to know.
so you leave it at
page one, and send
it back, marked
addressee unknown.