\ Unlikely Stories: coffee by Annie M
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coffee 
cup after cup 
after fucking cup. 
in this mortuary for the living dead 
as if 
the emotions that have turned to steal 
could revivify. 
one last time 
for one more night 
of delusive self-indulgence 
in beaten memories that keep coming back for more. 
pounding in my mind. 
another cup 
already an insomniac on a bed of blisters trying to produce 
an elusive improvement for a life that has turned its back on me. 
steady rising mummies 
suffocating for some sort of jolt 
a cause to grip and fly away 
on the wings of 
away from disappointment 
and failures 
and failures to realize 
anything that gives meaning 
or self importance 
or self evasion. 
another night 
looking out into the streets 
onto the faces of tombstones 
whose ruined virginities only mimic 
the heckling of assholes and drunkards. 
the emptiness in steady flowing refills. 
the absurdity of death, our lord and savior 
being the only one left to embrace. 
another night on the respirator 
with a mind that will show no mercy to itself.

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