they’re waiting on me in there i just sobbed harder than i have in years in here on my bathroom floor and they’re waiting on me in there where we’ll talk about new signs on the highway and why the dogs are howling and we’ll watch an old tv show and i’ll pretend i relate to them they’re waiting on me in there
i’ll say i got soap in my eyes and that’s why they’re so red they’ll know i was crying but it’s the charade that counts
they’re waiting on me in there i said i’d be quick but it’s been a long time i needed time to be so, so sad to be so far gone in this emptiness that i didn’t even care if i came back
i’m sitting on my bathroom floor so alone and i don’t want to be anywhere else at all i think that’s really, really sad
i’ve come to realize that everything i put out into the world is an apology for being there in the first place so, here goes:
i am sorry.
i traded shifts on thanksgiving day, because i thought it would make it easier, but it just made it impossible. if i am anything at all, i am inconvenient.