day one.
six-ten alarm. look like i fell into blender. brush teeth for forty-five minutes. spit, rinse, floss, cry. walk two stairs, fall down twelve. do not move.

day two.
no alarm. still at bottom of the stairs. hungry, ignore. thirsty, ignore. broken wrist or broken motivation. do not care. still look like i fell in blender. sleep for fifteen hours with sore neck.

day three.
set alarm too late. seven-thirty. panic. do not move. decide it's not worth it anymore. forget to sleep.

day four.
wake up alive. stand up, fall down, stand up again. light candle. blow it out. light new match. put it near hair. grow scared. extinguish match. go back to sleep.

day five.
nine-thirty. too sunny. angry. light match. put by face. coward. move it toward glass of water. miss. hit skin. smell acrid smells. feel scalded scar feels. wish to kill self, wish to kill nerves. lay down in sun. get skin cancer. feel cells grow.

day six.
legs hang off bed. seventy feet too tall. roll over, on floor. toes sticking out window. cancer added seven hundred and eighty inches to height. wash burns on arms in waterfall, wince. bandaids too small. lay down. cause earthquake.

day seven.
we might be giants.