Off Balance 🗣

Intro

This short spoken word piece was inspired by the #vss365 word prompt:

lurch

The closing line was written by a friend in response to an unrelated writing prompt, and is used here with permission.

Some nights never quite settle. Quiet becomes uncertain, ordinary objects seem to anticipate something, and even silence begins to lose its footing.

The audio version below is the intended experience, though the full text is included underneath for anyone unable to listen.

Full text of Off Balance

Window glass
held
its breath.

Coffee
kissed
the rim.

Common sense
took
the wrong exit.

Silence…

lurched.

Bang, fuck,
dogs barking again!