For everyone must run a race

The curtains know I’m drinking beer
Quit my job
The logic of clouds
Is that they move around?
This is all very interesting
But I can’t say why
I’ll just move along here
Preventing you all
From turning into ghosts
My hair silver now
I run very fast away from here
I am not thinking
Not getting a sense of the infinite
I am drinking sloe gin fizz

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Originally published in b l u s h lit

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Timothy Michalik is the author of Picaresque (Press Break, 2025) and runs the journal/press Copenhagen. They were born in Michigan and live in Queens.