Awake another night I am, your news
sitting on my bedside--obese, ulcered, stinking
until the wee hours, the first light of another
day of fright, pressing down on this
mattress like a four-wheeler--tossing me
from my own bed. Your news cloaks the
room, my limbs, my dreams, all day
my eyeballs burn as if they'd been soaked
all night in vinegar and it’s not over yet,
your news will trap for sure more nights
between my sight and thought,
between the dusk and dusk again.
