This one is nice.

after a shower and a shave
and generally cleaning up
for no one but myself
and maybe a dream
but mainly myself

i’m out of several things (bread
cheese
aftershave) but it’s been a long night
and i’ll still be hungry in the morning

what’s really bothering me is
(apart from everything else)
does anybody else notice
when it’s been a long night?

I think I wrote it because I wanted to write one without capital letters. Success! It is about how sometimes, when I haven’t slept well or I skipped a shower or I haven’t shaved I wonder if anyone notices. Sometimes the idea of someone saying “man, you look rough” has this weird appeal to it. I don’t know.

When I showed this one to Janie, she said that “this one would be cool to find somewhere on a dirty scrap of paper.” I couldn’t have said it better myself.