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Better Alone
Sitting alone comfortably
At night
Wide plush sofa
Flicking through high definition channels
Listening to neighbours quarrel
About undone dishes and wet laundry
I am better off alone
Am I not?
No one to argue
Or spar with
I speak to no one
No one speaks to me
I sleep peacefully
At night, alone
No one kicks or shoves me
Out of my king-sized bed
No hog like snores
Dirty pillows or short blankets
No one I see in the morning
Sitting uncomfortably alone
My house, my kingdom
The chair I sit on has four legs
One leg shorter than the rest
By choice, by coincidence
