Expressive Domain

Pancakes Served For Supper

Stop
your blubbering.

The fact that I have been
up since six
running ragged,
worn and shredded,
asked to solve
yet another person’s
urgent trauma,
is apparently not
a concern of yours
as you drop your demands
onto my overflowing stack.

But you caught me
at the end of my Jonah day,
exhausted, crabby,
and downright
drowned
and no amount
of sweetly sticky
gooey compliments
will help me
swallow that.

GPS

A languid dude
tells absolute location
with attitude
in lounge wear;
pain and just living
co-exist
in his world.

It is hard to locate
the energy he needs
to find her,
so he sleeps.

No place for dreams.

Only blackness needed,
so necessary to heal
the anguish
he leaves
on his pillow
where love and betrayal
crossed lines.

Fiber Is Indigestible

We have woven a perfect fit,
a cuddly blanket of us,
but you are messing around
with stuff you don’t know
anything about.

You want to change
just one tiny thing,
but don’t.
Tied to something else,
like a sweater thread,
it will all unravel.

I’ve strung you along
with a list of lies
and you can’t pull out
the first one,
or we will

fall

apart.

I am exhausted,
my nerves frazzled and frayed.