after hours_early morning

moving on from midnight,
and the way it burned so bright.
my second time in Atlanta this yeah,
that's weird.

drinking tea and feeling
pretty good about it,
as a dog barks in the distance
and I check Twitter twice.

an ant crawls across my iPhone screen
and I let it live,
because the borrowed bed is big,
just like the muse far away in Manhattan.

I was in a foul mood,
but now I am fine,
both for no reason
other than living like a human.

I eat pity pizza,
giving cheese to carpenter ant,
waiting for the ceiling to fall
or someone to break into this guest house.

maybe a murderer can give me
perspective I so desperately need
at this interval history,
as secrets end and the middle begins.

it starts to rain outside,
I hear it beating the sun to the punch,
so I go for a barefoot walk
in cold post-petrichor.

a rabbit crosses my path,
and I smirk at first,
at the Easter weekend irony,
then I think about eating it our of Passover spite.