I thought you should know that I cut my nails this morning.
I woke up earlier than she did,
Restless, senseless waste of sleep
Removed the nail polish you’d put on more than a month ago
I know it’s not good to leave it on for that long
But it’s also not good to smoke so many cigarettes
Drink so much alcohol, caffeine
Sit with your wallet in your back pocket
Time to change your clothes
And finally get rid of that cardigan you’ve had since middle school
Striped, but only on the sleeves, horizontal, around the elbows
Navy
The guy next to me is circling things in the newspaper
Jobs or apartments or things for sale or car advertisements or funny comics or interesting
articles or crossword puzzle answers or maybe perhaps a secret code because he’s in the FBI
I’d rather think that than he’s homeless and searching for work
His wife left him and he sunk into a deep depression fueled by alcoholism
He hasn’t recovered, might never
She was all he had
He left with the rain drenched clothes he was wearing when he caught her with the neighbor
After he came home early from his job cleaning gutters
He had gotten her flowers that day, just because
Dropped them outside their bedroom when he saw her feet up in the air
Still there
