TOOTH ACHE

Sound carries in this hollow room

startled myself sneezing

          bouncing off four walls - off white, snow white, eggshell, faux

did say this was hollow

white  feels hollow...

and my patience is without virtue

in purgatory

if voices begin to say so

better to learn her 

skill

      patience

redundant when the world outside is in a hurry

leaving me behind

am I a corpse already

in a bed-ridden hamster wheel

my disease is called lost faith

in humankind

in the so-called justice

          we patriotically patronize

our war vet fathers mommy sisters sons

Thanks a million marching

good night and good luck

I also think I may be

coming down

with a plebeian's  agoraphobic listlessness

lazy and frightened of the outside world

     perhaps it's more of a loathing

     than a fear

a shame than of a symptom...

but I must try to be more

patient

as time decays my youth

and lower left molar

I'm getting the hang 

of that skill (getting older)

          being as one with my walls

useless to go wailing

hollow 

like gunfire in the dark

(jaws clench release)

          the knife sharp piercing lessens

to an ache

distance 

I'm less to appreciate

Hollow - enamel walls :

distal / mesial / lingual / buccal

occlusal - crater

from amalgam failure

as of late

I seem enamored by decay

         Even if I should snap / and scream

at the top of my lungs

the world out there is still

hurrying 

to be left behind

Am I extinct

since a clone carries my name

identity theft of blame

as my caries

         hollows my tooth

facsimiles & artifice wearing

my life

now ache only arrives

on the mornings I open my eyes

I've come down with something, a'ight...

the sound of patience

absconds and

caries

          a zombie's blight

virtually a corpse

'cuz pain

feels like a

hollow

waiting room...