Timing

A listless wall-clock tocks. Pedestrians sleep-walk to their garages, strung out nightwalkers arrive home to unwind main springs. Neighborhood cats want in and dogs out. Pet-free I arise to pee. Hung upon marshmallow bones I roll back onto the perspiring mattress, Its pillows are still drunk on mind-fog. The slamming of distant doors tweaks fine ear hairs. The clock stops to rethink the notion of time, hands flop out of its face, those hands will never reach the floor, not until bare feet repossess the rug, nor until my toes can hack their way through its pile weave jungle, only then will the wall commence to tick, and a thick-tongued world clock in.