Tatum Dooley

The rain gives me headaches

like the drains in the street
have a connect line
into my head.

I wake up and take two
extra strength Motrin,
their sugar coating
turning my tongue orange.

a moth is flying around my room
banging into my dresser
and contemplating landing on me.

it moves so quickly
that my eyes blur
trying to watch it
and I think that this moth is here
to remind me
of my lack of energy.

I think of you
but you
do not think of me.

I lie back down and wait
for my body to stop fighting me.