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# What Happens When You Forget to Close Your Bedroom Window
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/what-happens-when-you-forget-to-close-your-bedroom-window/
- Published: 2021-07-09T13:21:35.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:04.000Z
- Description: Tonight I'll dream that a colony of ants has dragged me out to sea, where I discover my belongings and I have become so much flotsam and jetsam.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

I left my window open. Moonlight knocked over  
the dresser, flung socks and secrets like a thief  
scared away mid-theft. A fly rummaged my body. I survived  
bombs meant for I know not who, mistook my beating heart  
for unexploded ordnance. Whose war am I fighting?

My throat burns with lightning. A rainstorm sloshes  
in my stomach. I smell strongly of ozone, wet grass, bird  
feathers. Someone made off with my tears, sold them  
to a cloud for pennies on the dollar. At breakfast,  
I find the cupboards bare, the fridge ransacked.  
I make coffee with a bean I scrounge off the floor,  
next to a blueberry and breadcrumb I eat greedily.

I have lived so long, unawares of this black market,  
slept with my mouth shut to keep out the spiders  
I learn [don't actually climb into mouths](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-people-swallow-8-spiders-a-year-while-they-sleep1/?ref=andyposner.org) at night.  
I guzzle water from the faucet; remove a thousand  
stingers from my face, neck, chest, thighs;  
watch a spider eat a bee and a lion eat a bear.

Tonight I'll dream that a colony of ants has dragged  
me out to sea, where I discover my belongings and I  
have become so much flotsam and jetsam. Bobbing  
in the water, I barter what's left of me for a pinch of  
salt to season my last meal and bribe a pigeon to tell  
my wife to close the window--that I'm happy here.