Unemployed and Exhausted

after a month and half of sleeping past eleven

playing video games until thumbs and eyes hurt

shaving only in patches and showering weekly

he was exhausted and pungent

in a pair of over-sized gym shorts

flip-flops and a Seahawk jersey

he reflects on unemployment:

it's not as easy as people picture

takes extraordinary effort of will

to ignore the bills on the coffee table

and concentrate on Mario Kart

filling out a single application

becomes a day-long project

thrusting his palm

into his eye-socket

rubbing it around

then staring out the window

he says, in half-disbelief:

I need a vacation.