NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT

I like to see you walk away

just to see you walk.

I like to hear you say 'No'

if only to hear you speak.

I need to have something from you

- anything

and if it's negative reinforcement

that earns your attention

then negative reinforcement it shall be.

I don't mind.

If the only smiles you bestow

are because of my buffoonery

that I'll become the jester

just to get you to smile at me.

Absolutely.

If it were otherwise, that'd be good, too

but I'll take anything I can get

so long as you give it.