One Room Apartment

The window was stained
with a brown substance that
most people would

never allow near or around their
window, but
it was all over

mine.

Seagulls

The only piece of
beauty in
this squallor

is the seagulls
that play their
featherly flit
and feather antics,

and when I
feed them the man on
the first floor

is always so
angry

Looking

I look
to the
left,

and there's a
wall. I look to my right

my straight

my backwards

and all walls. In the corner
is a bathroom

and next to that is a stove
sitting on pealing
laminate, pasted
to carpet.