Poem #45

Another One

How things are 

supposed to be:

Easy, some say.

Not like me, then.

Not like this, when

(as is so often the case)

clean carpets seem 

     simple

     enough

and yet... 

They may cost 

three days

of lying in bed

thinking 

about taking another 

sip 

of water 

     ---from that cup

      over there,

      on the nightstand---

and listening to myself 

breathe: OK,

time, now,

for another one.

(c) 2013, by Hannah Six

Poem #45