wide-eyed and WTF

 denial is

a dog woke

 tool early 

by an alarm

everyone put Baby in a box

without self-labeling 

others will apply their own

predeterminations 

to me, most people are puzzles

little pieces learned 

here and there

to most people, I am X, Y, Z

turning inward

some nights, she presses

neck sore awkward

inertia shifting me aside

toward 

the edge

and I wake

startled 

in near collapse;

other nights I wake

to her gentle curl

the base of my spine

warm, her little nose

lifting 

as I turn inwards

I am what I am

Probably 

Gonna

…fuck some shit up…