buzz

there's a hornet in my room.

i can hear it buzzing.
but i cannot see it.

i think it's trapped in here,
and getting angrier.

i, too, am buzzing.
three shots of espresso
& half a pack of cigarettes.

maybe,
while napping,
i swallowed the hornet
which would be why
i cannot see it.

outside, the sun
hisses through the clouds,
like a flame in a wet blanket.

later,
the stars will do the same,
jittering
in the black stomach of the sky