Better Off

I was flat out on the bed

on my back and just looking up at the ceiling

bobbing my head back and forth---

thinking about how good a smirk felt

and how it was ingrown---

at long last

I was fairly certain of my flaws

what with these decades of adding

insult

+

injury

+

But it was during my sit in

during those seven days

that they covered it all up and wrapped it all up in Saran

until you couldn't wrap it anymore

and the secrets were all tucked in

It was then that I realized

I liked me---

but you---

you,

not so very much