the light on my phone keeps blinkin red in the dark like a tiny angry eye and i can hear it buzzin against the wood of the nightstand and it sounds like a bug trapped in a jar tryin to get out but i just lay there and stare at the ceiling where the paint is peelin off in strips like old skin. mrs.
procrastination shameemotional numbness

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