Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Monday Morning

Bsd

I know I should save them up and delay posting these, but what the hey. You can go to town and read it all, or save them up for a rainy day and savor my finely crafted work.
(Written February 26)

I wake up ticked off
by the alarm
on my phone incessantly beeping
three days in
and I don't want to get up for work
the burn of frustration
propels me out of bed
straight into a cup of coffee
hoping the sweet sugar buzz slide down
my throat
will lessen the sting
of this cranky morning
when nothing I wear or own
is quite right
neither is anything else in my life
I've got this invisible TO DO list
with too many things TO DO
I could use a cliche
like I'm struggling to breathe
say something familiar
like I just want to sleep
I want my coffee to save me
from the pointless persistence
of the thoughts clogging my brain
I walk out the door ticked off
by the time flashing
in blue numbers on my phone
three days in
and I don't want to go to work this morning.

10 comments:

bonne said...

Right, I told you that much of your work revolves around the early morning/eye prodding business.

Remember when you wrote, nice.

Cheerio said...

you did?

i wrote this at a WG, right? was that the one where we had to write about something we were angry about?

bonne said...

yes and yes and yes. I wrote about waiting six feet under aka subway commutes.

Cheerio said...

email it to me and i'll post it.
i'm in a poetic mood.

bonne said...

mkay....

bonne said...

you got it?

Just like a guy said...

When it rains it pours.

le7 said...

Nice.

C said...

Wow, wow, wow! I have never seen you not smiling. SO good to know you are human :).

That being said, I hope you only know happy days from here on out.

Cheerio said...

smiles and happy days do abound, but that still doesn't negate the effect of an early monday morning.
quite human, i am, indeed!