
Two hours forward, eighteen back.
I dance around the schedule,
It’s compromise I lack.
Sixty more clicks on the keyboard.
I’m never done with counting
And putting down a petty sword.
When the dawn arrives, I fidget,
I spin around in my seat.
My moral code’s missing a digit.
And the coffee yawns back at me
When I greet it the next morning,
Hoping to unlock misery’s mystery.
-JW