DONT MATTER

It does not come easy

Not like some remembering

Of stuff like ghosts

This is a window rat of a memory

Dragging me across

Floorboards and down

Into the storm drains

My hair matted

My mattress wet

Deep I’m in

So dark

Throw an old shoe

To the switch

And hit the light

And the vermin

Scatter

What it was

Doesn’t

Matter.