where do mattresses go when they leave your home? do they hitch a ride back to Oregon that place that you only pitched as an idea for a funny road trip but never actualized instead the map with all the pins of the places you've visited has become the places you'll go and now it's slanting askew because your sense of perception is always a little crooked do they sit by the curb of a dilapidated 7-11 and watch everyone give them bedroom eyes is there such a thing as pining or are we naturally drawn to the new? something foreign that can be learned with time and patience but the patience runs out like the water in the bag where that fish you won at the fair came in and when you got home there was only plastic and the rubbery upside down belly of fish scales in an airless vacuum
do they enter through the window and shimmy under the other dusty things in the attic? Do they make themselves at home telling you stories of everything they've seen and don't you wish that the guests always stayed longer than you could hope for but forever is not in your cards, it's not even in the receipts you horde in the kitchen drawer forever is stuck under the couch but you never check because it's easier to just sit and think about it