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Muggy (Other) by fevriere
This morning, I woke up with the morning
I was beckoned out of bed
to draw and draw at pints of water
to assuage a thumping head.
A hangover!
A novelty!
the punishment
for iced coffee;
and giving blood
and pouring sweat
onto the city's heavy heat.
My stomach is
a goldfish bowl
my head an amniotic bank
my brain like crepe
my fingers
feeling warm and more than slightly lank.
While yesterday began with promise,
talking of the beerlike sun
that washes with a harvest gold
through the town on everyone;
gently coaxes girls to smiling
asks the boys undo their shirts
fiddles even with the gravest
tempts them early from their work.
Day soon found its own objection:
Thickened air and upped the heat.
Furthermore, the day unwisely
lowered ceilings in the street.
Hung so quiet, blank as air
had our bodies in their vice.
Under them, I did a bad thing;
drank sweet coffee poured on ice.
I've been woken
with the morning
birds like details call outside.
Fingers sweat
still blank the sky
too immature to drink its pride.
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