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Nightly Stool

Charles Michael Craven

on the night of my suffering
I needed a friend.
anyone to say the right thing,
to distract me,
talk about the bird shit on my porch
or how music sucks these days
and how it is our fault
because this generation has no soul
but just as much our parents fault
because they kept our soul from us
because they realized they’re soul was to blame in the 70’s.

that night I could barely walk,
I limped to the toilet
curled halfway over
pressed my hands against my public hair
and tried to get the monster
in my colon
to calm the fuck down.

there is no good medicine for life.

my heart was in my ankles
my blood in my cock
no thoughts in my head
but I remember needing someone,
someone who was not there.

my phone didn’t ring that night
no lights pulled up to my gate
the combination of
marijuana
sleep aids
and cough syrup
gave me a way out.

the stars did not move
the air was still and perfect
and so was I,
until my self prescribed therapy
wore off.

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