sunlight shines through the sheets my eyelids too thin to keep shielded, or dreaming. fast like a Cadillac, ready to attack the first cup of coffee, the "last" spliff bowl, confused conversations, heavy fingers typing carefully, backspace backspace backspace backspace, erase slowly, think harder less, heartlessly charmless, bad luck, wouldn't have guessed this past-track record would keep repeating, over and over, until all sound is lost except for the tck tck tck of each letter, as I create.