Instead of crying, I put my
inner wrists over my ears.
My own pulse ignored me,
like footfalls on a sandpaper rooftop.

The man upstairs is shaking the house.
Repairs are not going well:
patching rainholes with whisky and buttercream
was his grandmother's strategy,
and a bad one at that.

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