It's nice
to eat my dinners
all alone,
not have to make conversation
with someone
who doesn't absorb your words.

It's nice
to sleep
all alone,
not have to share the bed
with a kicker, a snorer,
a blanket-stealer.

It's nice
to not have to say
I love you
to someone who said it back
but never
really meant it.

It's so nice to be
all alone.