Unawakening

You’ll hold down the bench next day
Been there before
Lots of practice
Perfecting the uneven evening
The uncalm lurching dark
Revisit old desires
Current ones
Problems
Situations
Relationships
Buffaloed by the damn bills
Hunting up solutions
To stop the past due salutations
Pillows punched like Ali on heavy bags
Blankets tossed on high seas
Newtonian plummets body positions
Like splatter falls on concrete
No matter the strategy
The night game stays tied
Into multiple overtimes
Exhaustion defeats rest
Buzzerd awake you’ve never slept
Stagger into courtside
Just to watch everything play on
In the living game
Where you’ll ride
Pine