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Fluorescent Sickness

My bed is full of crumbs:

It's odd how very very dire that is.

 

I'm surrounded by empty plastic

 

Things

Containing the memories of food:

Traces, some crusty cheese, a last sip.

And my bed is full of sugary crumbs.

.

My hair clumps stickily to my neck.

The fluorescence of the room flickers -

(The fleeting worry of unfixable darkness)

How terrible it is to be sick in my bed

And sick of my bed.

Sick of nothing, nothing,

Nothing at all

 

And surrounded by

Hollowed, consumed, abandoned, desiccated,

Used-up, plastic

Things.

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26 / American
Published
Sep 30, 2012
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