Charles Simic

The Week
by Charles Simic

Monday comes around with a new tattoo
It won't show us and here's Tuesday
Walking its latest nightmare on a leash
And Wednesday blind as the rain tapping
On a windowpane and Thursday sipping
Bad coffee served by a pretty waitress
And Friday lost in a confusion of sad
And happy faces and Saturday flashing
Like a pinball machine in the morgue
And Sunday with a head of crucified Christ
Hanging sideways in a bathroom mirror

from Scribbled in the Dark by Charles Simic. Copyright © 2017 by Charles Simic.