I can't sleep. 
"Why not."
The lights outside.
I just realized 
the highway outside my house
with the cars going by
that I like to look at
and think of
as a river
was traveled on
as they made their way
from portland
to boston 
to NYC.

The monsters were 
right outside my window,
stopping at pizza places
and ATMS.

Now, 

I am waiting for them
and I am impatient.
I think perhaps
I need a second attack
so that I can know
that I will be okay. 

"You've never been okay." 

But now I know what it is
to be hunted. Someone 
wants me dead. Me, you. 
They want us dead.

She tells me to shut up. 
I stop talking
her hand is on my heart
as she falls asleep.

I stare at the ceiling. 
Her hand tells me
there is something left 
to be felt, some life 
still beating
reverberating
onto her fingertips. 

They can drain as much 
as they want. It only proves 
there's something left. 

-e.

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