Damned

The doctors in the hospital across from my window all buzz around.

They’ve made a career for themselves, haven’t they?


My friends are studying law and will be out in a year or so.

Should I have gone back to school too?


I’ll hop across a few more state lines and start another job I don’t like.

I’m trying to ignore the life I imagined for myself (the one I’m not fulfilling).


But it’s insistent.


You’re failing

It hisses


You’re pathetic

It screams


Your real life will never be as good as me

The imagined life laughs and laughs

And laughs

And laughs