in bed; five

have you ever been fully awake for 73 hours?
no naps, no closed eyes? i have.
some people have been awake much longer than that;
i just couldn’t, those two beers made my eyes heavy

but let me tell you, i saw blurred colors
and the curtains were moving
and there were ants, thousands of them
congregating in the corner of your apartment

and the ground beneath me undulated like the ocean
and we agreed it was unlike any other trip
remember, i helped you write a paper
because you were busy watching your skin crawl

and the collaborative effort of our delirious minds
on the open microsoft word document
somehow made me forget
that you were fucking two other people


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