Alone In My Upstairs Apartment After a Hard Days Work

after rejection,
i make chicken 
dirty rice and 
call it a day

during the 
downtime, i
make swedish
meatballs with
parmesan cheese
and hang up my 
stresses in the
walk-
in closet

with the center of
a welcome peace, i
pour myself some 
green tea ginger ale
in a thirty-two
ounce 
cup and listen to
michael
franks

when i listen to the
song
about michael's baby
cooking
her eggplant, i
realize that i
forgot
to make some honey
butter biscuits

twelve minutes
later, when the
timer 
goes off and the
honey butter
biscuits
are ready, mr.
franks is singing
about a
lady who wants to
know the reason why

i say to myself,
'later for curiosity
and the 
cat....well, maybe
not the cat....that
may 
be dessert
later....in the
meantime, i 
pleasure myself on
one of the very
things 
that i work my butt
off for....and just
unwind
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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