OVERNIGHTS

Staying overnight in a friend’s house

I miss my own bed

in San Francisco

and the man in my bed

but mostly just

my bed

It’s a mattress on the floor

but so what?

This bed I’m in is lumpy

It lists to one side

It has thin covers

and is short

All night I toss and turn

dreaming of my bed

in San Francisco

with me in it

and the man too sometimes

in it

but together

Sometimes we are eating pastrami

which he likes

Sometimes we are eating

Other things