addict

(originally written 2/18)

I’ve started drinking bad coffee

Cold coffee

Re-heated coffee

I’m becoming less picky about my caffeine

and I guess you could

classify that

as a symptom of addiction

Addict.

Your headaches that used to stem from stress

are now screaming at you to drink your brew

before it’s too awful late in the morning

It’s not so bad, ya know

And! It’s kind of

like a new internal alarm clock

and when you press snooze

which happens to be my favorite word

Your veins that are normally not working very hard

to pass your caffeine-thinned blood

are now trying to squeeze the regular, syrup-like-blood

through the lazy, normally small passages

and sending signals to your brain to quit all attempts

of being happy and also to throw a fake smile at

any and all humans you encounter until it subsides