“Already in the bathroom, I did not want to leave to go get my hair tie, just to come back again – so I got another.
Once I returned to where I thought I’d left it, but typing on my phone having let thought of it go after task completion, irritating pressure on my wrist made me look:
It had been there the entire time!”
“‘No,’ really…”
In the reeed agaaiiiinnn
Fi-nan-ces are on fi-yer!
Disco
&
Very
“He’s all that – and a bag of chips!”
“My mind was innovating verse while deep trance navigating in sleep, and this is one of the lines that filtered to surface:
‘Quone is ogg.’
Archaic language? Otherworldly?
I have no real explanation.”
No gentle side-curling that
Creates extra compression
But sprawled diagonal across the bed
Face-down head between two pillows
By Athena Stairs, Early AM July 27, 2025
Big toe
Tryin’ to ignore it
Big toe
They’re gonna wanna sew it
Big toe
Won’t let them near it
Big toe
Just keep compression on it
Big toe
You’ve got to heal
Big toe
I need that wheel
Big toe
It might have gravel in it
Big toe
How different from a piece of glass imbedded that we all get stuck in our foot at one time or another?
(please, please, please)
Big toe
You’ve gotta come through for me
Big toe
Give you aloe that’s soothing
Big toe
I’m limpin’ around ya – can’t you see?
Big toe
Runnin’s gotten much far-tha away from me
Big toe
I am aggrieved
Big toe
Pretend you’re not cleaved
Big toe
I summon the ghost of thee
Big toe
Stop pingin’ nerves at me
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I actually like spiders, to a respectful degree.
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