i wish someone would sometimes tell me to go to sleep

he is drinking my hot chocolate

there were two rats in the tracks last night
they had found
each, other somehow

they chased and hid
and chased
lost sight

one would
peer, the other would
peer, and scamper

losing scent they went
on various directions
little holes and burrows

stopping at
edibles, maybe
ate their hearts out

(creek for sea)

i slammed the door five hundred times
i did not lift a finger