Monday, June 16, 2025

Stiff in the morning Feb. 22, 2015


It gets most elevated when I get up in the morning, anticipating an event that does not take place, a morning ritual I suffer through and think of you, the night sweats that are not the right sweats, pumped up and exercised into exhaustion. I wake after having dreams that can’t come true, the sweetness I only dream I’ve tasted, the plunge into softness I only dream I felt, all of it the most haunting in the morning because at night I can still dream of it as real, and as stiff as morning makes it, I feel at a loss, a wasted moment daylight steals and I commiserate over a cup of steaming

 coffee and the drip of butter from the sides of a buttered roll, the last gasp of satisfaction I will not get until night sweeps me off my feet again and I plunge into your abyss again.


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