Morning: New York City Student Hostel

Blear-eyed
Dead for sleep
Unshaved

Ignoring
Yesterday’s Sore feet
Shreds of conversation unfinished
Australian blonde-haired woman

Subway urine stench

Forgetting
Last night’s
Hacking coughs
Throbbing temples
Faint blueish smoke haze
And
Australian blonde-haired women
Savoring

The joy that sobriety brings