ANDANTE TRANQUILLO
by Hugh Fox

Don’t worry about closing the blinds, it’s going to be
super-cloudy tomorrow morning, hand me another
Tylenol, maybe it’ll get rid of  the back spasms when
I get up my usual five times a night to piss, I shouldn’t
have any Irish Creme with the Tylenol, but...maybe
I won’t use two comforters tonight, it’ll be only on the
edge of freezing, it’s only a suburb but it could be 50 miles
out in the country, one acre, the house surrounded
by pines trees and  pine bushes and more pine trees and
more pine bushes, maybe I’ll leave tonight, that’s the best
way, a sudden pain, you wake up and you’re really
home.