What keeps you up at night
when sleep evades the bloated mind
unknotting dreams out your hair
becomes morning routine
sink clogged with the thick smog of nightmares
horrors that can’t be blocked so easily
will rot your teeth
flossing strings of thought between fragments of memory
rinsed out with mouthwash
a cleanse of the body
excavate
evacuate
running on empty past the exit signs
to daylight.
