Poem: What's the Point?

What’s the Point?

Every morning
he wakes up
and realizes
that no one
is willing to
sleep with him.
He lets that thought
settle in.
Once it settles,
all the way
to the bottom,
he rejects
the alarm clock’s
suggestion
of things like hope,
ambition,
or self-respect.
So that’s how
it’s gonna be?
Then dammit.
He chooses to go
back to sleep.

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