11/16/21

the room



pleasantries 

and paltry platitudes,

the room was filled

with fake


injected cheeks, lips

frozen smiles

enhancements and

exaggerations


I drank to enjoy misery

I drank to kill company

I drank to be someone else

anywhere else but there


the clock, the fucking clock

wouldn't move fast enough

so I decided to die instead


she looked at me

she smiled

but I was already gone



(Night Out by Victor Ostrovsky, exposuresfineart.com)




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