Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Sometime In The Sunshine

perhaps tonight i will go home

home

the place where i will go and take
this dirty uniform off

the place with the wine i have
tucked away in my closet

uncork it
and set my thoughts free
while i listen to fine music

bob marley
and maybe
slayer
too

fucking slayer

i won't think about
too much of today

i won't think about the
eight year old

with

a brain tumor
that
i worked with
today


his endless vomiting and headache

i won't think about his
mothers

eyes

or

the tears she
fought back

i won't think about the
broken Spanish i tried my
hardest to speak
and
understand

i won't think about the fact
that
i should be better than
i am


i'm sorry
i am getting out of work pretty soon
and
i'm tired

it isn't that
i don't love you

i do

i just need to stop
thinking about you
for tonight

i just want to think about...

something else

2 comments:

the walking man said...

Maxwell Smart and company had a cone of silence. They used it for super secret conversations. Maybe you could find one on E-Bay and use it to stop thinking for a night.

RRN said...

i am down for anything that has to do with codes of silence. that much i know for sure.