Each line edited for content
Every rhyme missing its mate
Beat time to reach the end
Only to find a blank slate

The puppy is located in room two according to the Motel 8 Times.
I heard it last night, puppy howling into nothing.
Just annoying while I was taking an enormous bath.
The news itself is crude, Kinko sponsored.
But there are no more cigarettes. Only habit.
Holding a pencil gets the job done. Jabbing at the Times.
Dusk time sun makes his presence known.
Brazen, bold crimsons and hazy salty airs perfume this rinky **** motel bathroom.
The essence of what that cigarette used to provide me.
Blazing through a small, dark blunt, everything becomes certain.

No need for clocks
knowing in your bones that it’s 5:01 in the morning.
Time is being kept by something else now.
Waking in the mornings is effortless and free of any anxiety.
Every soft step taken is followed with weights falling. Burdens lifted. Coffee with the women. The men outside or in the barn