Thursday, August 10, 2017

Routine

And the water in the shower is biting cold
Again
I stand beneath the stream
Naked, shivering and painfully still
Screaming
Silently
The neighbor’s dog, Jethro, is bounding across the floor upstairs
I can hear him
The way I always do
And I close my eyes
Coffee is burning in the other room
I’ll need more than this
So much more than this
To get by
I lose myself in these moments
Stumble into dreams
Awaken to apocalypse
And it’s all I can do to keep from laughing myself into tomorrow
Where I’m standing beneath the same fucking shower head
And drinking burnt coffee



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