the morning after i drank a carafe half-filled with gin
i wake up to a cold surface against my back, my laptop.
i open it and stay in bed till noon.
i read poems of forough farrokhzad, balancing the cold laptop on my stomach
scrolling the web page with my dry-er left hand, the right one sticky
and crumpled sheets of bamboo-sourced paper towels next to my bed.