lying with an unblinking stare
the lizard stares back at me
passing me by, a babushka is placed
and darkness sheaths the fluorescent night
this cot is empty without me
and even if it has me, and though my rear
lays like a baby, in a disguise din
the hush besieges me
probably because i’m not the same
when you’re not beside me
written 1/17/2003