u/kimmeLex

My stuffed animals envied me.
Anguish stitches their seams.
My mattress fills with sand.

The house turns deaf
except the clock.
The animals
leave my bedspread.

•••

My bed spat me out.
My knees split open —
cotton came out.

They watch me patch myself.
The clock chokes 12

I wake up.

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