in the house
Where I couldn’t sleep a solid
three or four weeks,
Three AM and past
where the vacuum might run
            in the house
            i couldn’t sleep
Ignored the holes in plaster and
broken doors, near-
broken, like violent hands 
ignored pleas to stop
            in the house
            i couldn’t sleep
            i couldn’t leave
You there, leave him, leave me,
But you could and took all
but me, awake every night
you weren’t there to watch me
            in the house
            i couldn’t sleep
            i couldn’t leave
            in this house