The air is thickThe leaky faucet in grandma’s bathtub is going drip, plop,drip, plopThere is a small glimpse of light coming from the crackin my doorMy bed feels so bigLike I would need one thousand me’s, five-foot me’sTo fill the bedThe air suddenly becomes thinnerThe faucet stops dripping for a secondAnd I simply fall asleep.

Elgin, Illinois