a different route

'a different route'

i really should be sitting atop

the cool dew mat of your grave but

i've chosen a different route today— 

uncomfortable stool beneath me

a jagged tear on the one beside

sipping on a scotch

watching as what remains

of this afternoon

bleeds away. 

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