I sit down here drinking hemlock
While terrible things go on upstaris.
Sweat creeps like moss outward to the palms,
And time itself now seems a strange, gauze-like medium.
Sleep will leave still newer scars each night, or,
Infuriatingly, is a curtain that refuses to close.
On the horizon, bizarre consolations make themselves
Known – a full fridge, a silent telephone,
The television quiet in its corner.
Everything and nothing have become a circular
Geometrical figure, seamlessly joined,
To be wrestled innocently this way and that
Into the most peculiar almost whimsical shapes.
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