Sensitivity to sunlight.
Symptoms of an engine running hot
and a lack of mental stamina
can be damning.
Fear of definition makes for foggy days.
You cannot get in trouble for being asleep
is as adequate a defense as
memory.
Confirm or deny. Either way, a lie.
It is a smallish creature, about the size of a raccoon.
Spilling from the perceived into the known.
Cohabitants of time and space,
while everything else occupies
its designated, long memorized
correct place. What are you, little thing,
beckoning my attentions and searches,
filling my excuses overridden by excuses of lost keys?
Come out and play and
stop tampering with the lights to make them silly flicker.
Suss out and play and
come when called,
so no one need build a new
circuit broken wall.