All the birds wake and I have not slept.
\nWhat will this day yield
\nwhen the neighbors start fighting again?<\/p>\n
Listening to their fights makes me feel inept
\nlike my mood’s a soup on the counter, congealed.
\nAll the birds wake and I have not slept.<\/p>\n
To my ears, their decibels have never crept
\nlower than a jet engine, cacophony and steel,
\nwhen the neighbors start fighting again.<\/p>\n
So our quiet is, every day, usurped
\nand I want to hide as the yelling builds.
\nAll the birds wake and I have not slept.<\/p>\n
No one more than me is perturbed
\nthat each day begins with another fighting reel
\nwhen the neighbors start fighting again.<\/p>\n
Each night by nine I\u2019ve leapt,
\nwith water glass, to my melatonin fields.
\nAll the birds wake and I have not slept
\nwhen the neighbors start fighting again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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