Why am I awake at 4:22 a.m.?
I think Chad woke me as he entered the room.
But there are better questions:
Why is Chad awake?
Why is Neil conversing with his Google Home
on the other side of the wall?
Why is someone upstairs watching a horror film
not loud enough to hear
but just loud enough to unsettle my subconscious?
Why is my brain cleaving so unrelentingly
to Adrianne Lenker and Black Eyed Peas?
Why is my vent quietly wailing
like a distant tornado alarm at 11:00 on a Friday?
Is this feeling as real as I hope it is?