Life
Today I feel
Life has bowled me over
Tumbling
Like being dumped
By a wave I can’t see
And the air
I thought I could breathe
Is suddenly not there
—————
I am drowning
In circumstances
Not of my own making
— a dead car battery
A broken hot water service —
But also things
I use to distract
— working out my skin undertone
Or writing poems —
My body is so contracted
I can’t digest food properly
I have aches in old injury sites
From petrified muscles
Sleep is scarce
Or invaded
— this morning my neighbour
Excavates a concrete slab
From my bedside —
Everywhere I go lately
There are people
In all my withdrawal places
My home is so tiny
And I am about to move
Into a tinier one
I feel squeezed
To the bone
Ah — Life!
15/4/20
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