vitamins

to take the green one, two
brown ones, light brown and boring
three spotted beige, one white
four bright red, plump, rocket shaped
is more afford than i can mustard 
i should  i know
because you are waiting
because are you waiting
        probably 
        not 
lying in the dark 
wide eyed wondering what I’m doing
i know
      you’re probably 
sleeping with your eyes
closed. are those eyes real even?
and I can’t rip my zippered self away
from 
       the screen
       blue white center of the night glow
the interdragnet in which
i am the catch of the day every day  
the eating of myself from the
inside out
          (and i wonder often enough if
          i am crazy
          or lazy 
          or simply obsessive)
but is why i should just take the damn 
things and get some sleep

Tara Przybille


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