unfastidious relief my throat burns like a midnight afterglow crystallised in fleeting harmony jaded reflux relishing in others memory piecing the night together from bed from outside windows under cars and in apertures tiptoeing on one foot drinking my third segment of tonight black, snotty wine drying in blue destroying my thirst and cracking my lips i tumble onward stewing in false pretense irregular unimportant conversation fabricated pissy and ****-faced struggling to capsize their ego finding oneself in black bin bags filled with a need to socialise for the sake of it my bones are empty the road bends and my back is wet first one to go home tonight is dead