monday poem 5

• Dizzy with lack of sleep
• I catch myself
• about to fall
• down the echoing stairwell
• echoes of too many memories
• upset
• or worse—nauseated
• I catch my lunch.
• Maybe I’m catching something.
• Maybe I’m upset about
• the things that upset me.
• An oddness in the head
• magnifies the unpleasant
• facts of life
• and I begin to ache.
• I have an ache in the back
• and an ache in the heart.