Treading
You ride the morning After the alarm, The cravings. Coffee sees you off. Platonic work wife Smiles sugar. Boulders aren’t dislodging, Raging down the hillsides. Lunch is dialogue You dumbed down for the natives. You’re a mile from the eighties. Life is creeping down the chute. You’re coasting on your charms. What did you dream last night, Or can you dream at all These brutal times? Good god, I crave a single work day Unpredictable. No love Is simmering in ruins Of capitalistic cages. I remember nights Beneath the apple blossoms Dancing close to breathe each other’s steam. You wore a yellow sweater Smelling of vanilla. - 10/7/27