Fleeting Company
Written By
Poet and Photographer J H Martin @ A Coat for a Monkey
HOTEL REFLECTION
I press the bell
Check out my reflection
And throw the key upon reception
It’s now time
To forget about the time
To strip myself of clothes
And to wreath these bones
In plumes of opiated smoke
And bathe them in the cheapest whisky
It’s time to drain another glass
To stroke the disconnection wider
To lie back upon the unmade bed
And watch the door open
Of course she doesn’t need to knock
How many times
Have we been here before?
My full pair of parting lips
My paid for company
“Come here, darling…”
Come join me in this loneliness
Come watch it bend and buck
See our shadows join and writhe now
Across the heavy breathing walls
“So big…”
This lie we pay to procreate
“So hard…’
These low-lit nights
We burn away
With pornographic repetition
“Baby…”
The money is all there
No need to keep up the act
“Tomorrow?”
“Maybe…”
But for now – I think not
As the door closes on her figure
Stood alone
Naked fried
I think only of the dawn
As it comes in – creeping uninvited
Through the cracks in these pale curtains
Its too loud cars and turned up rays
Lay bare
The alcoholic sweat and blackened sheets
Of this tin foil mind
Yes
The outside world may be waking now
But I am still inside a dream
A concrete view
A red-eyed reflection
Neither here nor there
Text © J H Martin
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J H’s Previous Contributions To Edge Of Humanity Magazine
A Breeze Of Sorrow Passing Over Emptiness
“…you know you can’t sleep there” | Passages Of A Homeless Person’s Life
Life On The Irrawaddy’s Muddy Waters
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