Little Black Dot

it's disconcerting business, defrosting my fridge.
it's like watching a polar ice cap and i feel guilty
for wishing it would just hurry up and disappear already
because i want to plug this thing back in and buy groceries
but the good news and the bad news is
the smaller it gets, the faster it goes.
there is a sopping wet bathrobe lodged temporarily in my shower stall and today i really wish also
that i had in-house laundry because i am too high for the laundromat and it's raining again and there's just no way i'm going to carry that thing all the way down there on my back.
while i was at school for three hours, instead of doing any, you know, school work, i drew a triptych. then i came home and finished it.
untitled, i-iii
pen and pencil crayon on matte board.
2009.
THE SUN IS COMING OUT and i know it's kind of unreasonable
to start thinking like that about myself but i swear it's not just me.
i think that about pretty much everyone i know.
it's coming. the sun is coming.