Hot night I sit on sweat
breathing cigarette smoke
that wafts from the ground
floor like fog across rocks.
My mind is hot split in, too
often revisited complaints
of he who does not listen
to reason or facsimilic truth.
The whir of the fan dulls
all sound from the street.
I do not hear the smoker cough
up the years he drags out.
The air moved into the room
is wet and full of the still
atmosphere that preexists
the storm that is sure to come.
I wipe the moist pebbles
off my brow and wipe my leg.
I will surely die second hand
stuck to my fretted glow.
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