Dog food to the mind.

I close my eyes

lids weighted

masked with metal

barbs

hooked

and nails

Keep out the light

and the night

till dawn is as

broken

as everything else

Each of the frames
moments
caught in reflection in those spare
seconds

hands
touching the face, now that its
real
at least for a moment

and inside
voices

a radio heard
for those times
and these
and the future

another lie

inter

up

said Ted.

disagreement too fine

and too avoided to be

missed
like yesterday

and the life before