5:54 AM

A Jumble of words

Frustration

Unfinished everything

After-the-race cramping

A daily slog through waist-deep mud

Half of a thought

Vicarious traveling

When someone laughed at my trouble

Extra gravity

Double or triple my weight

Pinpricks don’t bleed

Invisible wounds

Shrunken eyes

Double vision

Three-week headaches

Disappeared

No one noticed

The sound of static screaming

Sleep overcomes me

Clinging to the railing

Forgetting the plot

Forgetting that I read it

At all

Can I imagine

Ten more years

Of this?