Good Morning

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My eyelids flicker open.
Limbs weak and warm and heavy.
I feel worse for sleeping.
And let my eyelids slowly shut again.
I lie in a mess of sheets and crumpled blankets.
Pillows and pyjamas strewn across the floor,
In the cold, depressing half-light of another pointless Thursday.
As I hear my alarm go off, beeping obnoxiously,
Screaming chores and responsibilities in my ears.
I lie in bed until it finishes.

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