the levee broke this morning

the rainwater pressed up behind it like your average crowd stampede
liquid droplets scrambling for tickets to something or other
pushing desperately to invade my yard and homestead like they’ve got somewhere to be
leaving nothing more than an undammed dam condamned to disrepair for being damned useless

i was tryin’ to sleep when it hit
soaked my clothes through, waterlogged the walls, shorted the heater, drowned the mouse in the hole by the stairs, and pissed off the too-old-for-his-job housecat too lazy or too broken down to give chase

now he’s drying himself in the windowsill, tracking mud on my cookware i forgot to scrub last night, still caked with potatoes, eggs, and rapidly rancidifying bacon fat
naught worth eatin’, alls left is a patina of culinary ennui and an empty grocery budget

even with all this rain and floodin’, i’ve still got plenty to clean, and nothin’ to clean it with
i pass the boy some slightly-too-dry catfood with a smile, scratching just under his neck in a manner he remains preferential to in his old age

i start to heat up some water in a hot water bottle on top of the recently deceased water heater where too-old-for-his-job likes to sit, forgetting the electrical short that detonated any chances of using this junker to heat anything other than my rapidly fraying temper

i don some clothes from the upper closet, mothballed shirts unsullied by neither swampwater nor swampstench

too-old-for-his-job curls into my lap with a huff, i’m not exactly the bosom of abraham, but i’ll have to do for now

rainy season’s gotta end sometime, right?

right?

postgame carnage report

i thought it would be interesting to try writing something for a change. sorry for being absent for so long. as you can see, this funny little site has been updated with a new codebase. hope y’all like it

may god bless each and every one of you.

♾️ 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

-sheena