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Rostered day off.

author
Jayeh Marr

I retract into my flannelette and feather nest
enough to register the bell-like birdsong
but not the fart and sputter of commuters traffic
develop into drone
And so comfortably coccooned
I sling a fuddled fist
past Snooze to Sleep.

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