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Mouse

monsters mouths are always agape in light.
why should we believe in them.
we are the only things that fear.

you never get tired of watching a hippo open it’s mouth.
at night i keep having these dreams that you call me..
you call me from a bus stop in albuquerque
a diner in tennessee a monastery in sri lanka
and all you say is you want to come home…
and it’s late and night, at it seems i can always
drive to wherever i have to go then and there
you get in the car, and fall asleep as i drive back
breathing like a mouse in a blanket
and i get home after hours and hours, all in the dark of night
and carry you in and drop you in bed, fall asleep
and wake up then, what seems like minutes after.. maybe because
you dream in the last minutes of sleep or
because it was really so near daybreak.
i don’t know.. it just feels like i haven’t been getting much sleep lately.

monsters mouths are always agape in light.
i wish i didn’t have to use that word.

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