Phoebe Harris - Click, click

Click, click.
Books full of brick blocks of text,
Full of inscrutable sentences,
Full of jumbled letters, numbers, figures.

Click, click.
Words cascade into my mind,
Held for a moment of intense concentration,
Then seeping, leaking, escaping.

Click, click.
Eyes blurry with forced focus,
Steel shutters clamping them together,
Onto swollen purple pillows.

Click, click.
Pulsating vexation,
Why isn’t it going in?
You’re not ready.
You’re going to fail.

Inhale, rip, exhale.

Phoebe Harris

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