NOT MY FAULT
subway trains screeching
Homer’s sirens shrieking
can’t stop obsessive thoughts
tackling other thoughts
someone pushing random buttons
brain glitches
chemicals reconfiguring
flashes cosmic insight
memory lapses
onslaught of sensory input
thoughts of arson self-annihilation
masochist streaks of fasting, insomnia
sustaining oneself absurd
dressing carefully
to cover up strangeness
overwhelming urges to buy shoes
jewellery paintings pianos lingerie
everything unaffordable
providing a high
temporary relief
from overloading circuitry
with epival risperdal halidol
the dolls make me drool unspool
lying on the cool kitchen floor
finally falling asleep
Author’s Bio
Myna Wallin is a Toronto author with three published books: A Thousand Profane Pieces, poems (Tightrope Books, 2006), Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar, a novel (Tightrope Books, 2010), and Anatomy of An Injury, poems (Inanna Publications, 2018). Myna’s poem “Resurrections” was selected for the 2018 League of Canadian Poets’ Poem in Your Pocket Day.