Daily grind

                                 © Marko Davidović

you want to throw something at the sun

for being so punctual

here you are, rumpled on the bed

awake again and still alone

dreams tumbled back

under the blankets where your hand

rests on your sex, bored with the thought

of even trying for a feeling

being alive

makes you sick today

and you want to call a stranger

masturbate while talking to him

about weather or the price of fuel

but the battery in your phone

has been dead for days, the cats

need feeding and you haven’t shaved your legs

for so long it’s going to take hours

or a wax job you can’t afford

thought of shopping in the Mall

makes you pull the blankets up

turn over

and slink back to sleep

-by Mercedes Webb-Pullman

Mercedes Webb-Pullman graduated from IIML Victoria University Wellington New Zealand with her MA in Creative Writing 2011. Her work appears online and in print (Danse Macabre, Turbine, 4th Floor, Swamp, Reconfigurations, The Electronic Bridge, poetryrepairs, Connotations Press, The Red Room, many anthologies, and her books  Ono, Looking for Kerouac, After the Danse, Numeralla Dreaming, Food 4 Thought, Tasseography and Bravo Charlie Foxtrot) She lives on the Kapiti Coast, New Zealand.

Painting Courtesy: Marko Davidović

Marko Davidović was born in belgrade, 1981, finished Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, 2005, in Graphic Design. Had 4 solo exhibitions and several group ones with some awards for graphic, graphic design, painting, drawing, own made font and calligraphy.