midnight coffee

the perspiration of hesitation runs beneath my collar down vertebrae by vertebrae past the knot of silence screaming...

clogging my throat…
pour another damned cup of coffee and shut the fuck up until the morning comes with the sound of traffic and congestion…
clouds belong in the sky not across an ultra sound image…
pour coffee, stir in 1/2 sugar, remove spoon, then gently pour in cream...

sip and cry til morning...