DS Maolalai Drunk, and trying to be quiet

DS Maolalai __________________________________________

Drunk, and trying to be quiet.

moving through the kitchen / like a boat in harbor, / drunk at 11pm / on wine, and a little beer afterward, / and trying your best / to be quiet. putting down bottles / by the backyard door / with a sound / like tanks / crushing houses in palestine. / then you turn / and knock a fork over. turn again / and pick it up. upstairs / someone turns over / in your bed / and snorts a sound / like cars crashing / and collapsing / mineshafts. you freeze. then move, / more freely now, / feeling a fool in your concern, / remembering / how heavily / she sleeps