enlightenment

by barry9393

Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-07-19 03:11:00

when I awoke
head throbbing
to coffee stained
m/s by my side
wine bottles
at my feet
cockroach’s
in the fridge
rain dripping
through the ceiling
and a note
that said
“enough is enough”
not even a goodbye
I realised
that
at
last
I had
reached
Beatdom
and
turned over
and
went
back
to
s
l
e
e
p

(sleep should slide down across the page but it will not do that, sorry )

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