Where Was the Apocalypse?

CranMalReignCranMalReign Posts: 1,928
edited December 2003 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
One Christmas, my sister Diana got me a stuffed monkey with big feet. She said it was because I had big feet. I named him Apocalypse.

After she died, I slept with him every night. Some kind of selfmedication, I guess.

But the nights that I was ashamed of myself, I didn't sleep with him. I was afraid maybe she'd see what I'd done. Those nights were numerous in my latter years of college.

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Where Was the Apocalypse?
February 18, 2001

Where was the apocalypse last night?
Usually snuggled warmly
Perhaps strangled
In the night

Where was the apocalypse last night?
The apocalypse was hiding
Or maybe hidden
Down between the mattress and the wall

No apocalypse last night
I slept alone
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Comments

  • Stuffed toys forgive all! No need to sleep alone CMR. No need to feel ashamed, you're only human!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
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