Where were you, you little *******? Where were you hiding As I turned out the lights last night?
Were you in the closet as I came into the bedroom? Did you seep like a flood Across the floor in the darkness Rising up the leg of the bed And into my ears like liquid toxic waste?
Were you under the pillow And as my fingers slid under there Between the crisp, smooth layers of white cotton? Did you coil about my fingers And up my arm To spread over my scalp All fuming-acid corrosive?
Were you in under the folds Of the welcoming, white-striped comforter As we turned in after a perfectly pleasant day? Waiting, still, in the dark As I pulled the blankets up taught? And just below my chin As the cold sheets around me warmed To stop the just-into-bed shivers?
Did you crawl up then as I dozed And twist around my throat To tighten slowly until I awoke in your grip?
Where ever you were hiding, You got the drop on me. You turned the tiny dim lights That peek into the room at night Into piercing lasers.
You amplified the tiniest odours Into dizzying, eye-watering stenches.
You traded the rising-sun's rays As they finally pierced the curtains After my hours of sleepless discomfort For a blasts of neutron-bomb radiation.
Worst of all You stole the cool, soothing side of the pillow Every time I managed to find it Giving me instead a sickly, warm bundle of gorse.
Where were you, you little *******? Where were you hiding?