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Friday, February 1, 2013

paper work


fifteen years of not doing paper work
she looks at the boxes in various corners of the house and basement.
some were outside in the storage shed that collapsed
she stopped doing paperwork when she left
She never did file the divorce papers, so she's still married

fifteen years must mean something?
Now when she looks at the piles and boxes
she wants to crawl back to bed and sleep
She thinks, does she want to go another year
in apathetic denial of the accumulation of debris, emotional as well as physical debris?
can she take another moment of being stagnant and swamped?
her bed calls