SoMa Literary Review - A Reason to Move

A Reason to Move

By Steven Hoadley

I sit in my chair
like I often do,
not thinking too much,
trying to ignore
the trash
and tragedy
that is my room.

The carpet under my feet
is marked
by coffee stains,
speckled with
little flakes
of dried sperm
I had neglected
to catch,
clean up,
or even care about.

The cigarette burns
don’t bother me too much
as I can’t do anything
about them
even if I wanted to,

which I don’t.

My toilet’s plugged
from the results
of bad diet
and the plunger
seems to work only
in reverse,
bringing up
more
and more
of what it is
that haunts me.

I think it’s time to move.

This place has gone to shit.

Also by Steven Hoadley on SoMa Literary Review:

The Life and Daily Death of Sam Mackie

Episode One: Thoroughly Bad James

Episode Two: Even Jesus Farted
Episode Three: A Love Story

Episode Four: Dave's Dementia

Episode Five: The Last Straw

Bedtime, Barbra Streisand can Shove Her Memories up Her Ass,
A Midnight Poem That Had to be Written Before Sleep Could Be Had, One Year,
Sunday Morning Coffee, The Rejection, A Reason to Move, The San Ramon War Protest, 86'd Again, Youth, Denny's, Karma, Suffering of an Idiot & Poem for all Western Civilization