Forbidden Activities
11 PM
Before the evening news
Gets into full swing
It is silenced by the push of a button
Unwillingly I climb into my bed and
Start to put the headphones on
With the same enthusiasm that
The hanged man has while
The noose is being placed
Around his neck
I hear her complaining
Through the sound emitted from the buds in my ears
About a knocking in the pipes over the sound that is coming from the headphones
She’s complaining so loudly that it
Causes me to take off
My headphones
To see if I can say something to calm her down
“You can’t help the pipes” I say
And she’s threatening to run to the third floor and rip out the pipes
It really wasn’t that loud
But relief ran through my head
When I remembered that she was moving out this week
And it was enough to make me smile a bit as I rolled back over
To drift off to sleep
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