To Bed

Carol Shamon
1 min readMay 10, 2023
Photo by the author

I pull off my clothes

And throw them inside out

In a pile on the chair

Nothing like your precisely placed and folded

morning wardrobe

In bed I lay flat

Then turn to the right

Then the left

I stick one leg out of the covers

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Carol Shamon

Carol Shamon’s poetry and essays are slices of a real life examined and hopefully made better. She recently published a zine and is working on a memoir.