lost inside a sunday
so the furnace runs all day long
oh my it must be winter again
earlier I found a gummy in a tupperware
pill box right there on the top shelf
of the refrigerator —and so I popped it
into my mouth unsure what it was
or how it had gotten there
the house is empty like an abandoned
bird’s nest —that is except for Walter & me
at one point I had forgotten he’d been out
so gave him some treats two hours later
after letting him back in to a chorus of boos
upstairs three of the four bedrooms
are stone cold —I lock myself inside
one of them for a couple of hours
just to teach myself a lesson
january two thousand twenty-four
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