Anxious Poets Society
Abstractions from New Year’s Agoraphobia

memory comes as rumour or ruse
blessed sleep two days from death I roll into an office dressed in blue a fulltime job in the giant machine
yesterday’s crowds already forgotten
scribbling papers into encryption
the fireworks are set up too early
I tense my back before the first shot
when the minister spoke is unclear
I shake a hangover out of my ear
today I got stared at by forty people
there is a tadpole stuck in my wrists
man alarms dog with loud button
the dog breaks into its own house
an intruder in the inner sanctum
I am trying to keep quietly calm
Valen Lim is based in Singapore and can be found writing at http://uglystage.com.
#memory #death #sleep #machine #forgotten #fireworks #hangover #intruder #calm