Released from caring
for a moment about
the state of the world
through the act of cleaning
all the kitchen cabinets
and reorganizing pots
and pans and too many
coffee mugs and making
donation piles and nodding
in sadness at the need to
simply deport some things to
the recycling bin as if they
could be something other
than what they are and have been
for their entire lives and then
collapsing into the couch
coated in sweat and my sugar’s
been stupid high of late and
I should go to the doctor but
the co-pay is beyond my means
and it feels like there’s a nuclear war
under my skin until I shower
with the water turned up high and hot
drowning me almost like a hurricane
but thankful that I left the TV off
and stayed strictly away from the news
and kept the personal separate
from the political
