Exhausted, or ... Why I Was Absent from Class, Sick Like a Dog & Was Even Forced to Quit Smoking, Sleeping 36 Hours in 2 Days, the Week of 9/11/01

Originally published in Reed Magazine 2002, A Journal of Poetry & Prose, Vol. 55. Copyright © 2002 – San Jose State University

timeless sleep, with rash

and fever, too much smoking

New York toppled me