Night Patterns

Night.
Solitude.
Mild tinnitus.
Radio 4 at a low volume.
The list of women unfucked a thought away.
Thrill of reading Perec
Contrasted with the frustrated tasks undone,
The old cassette tapes unlabelled,
The newspapers unread,
The teaching material unsorted,
Things from another time put down to collect dust,
Things unthrown away.

The list of women unfucked.