October 2022 Flash Lit #2 - Hybrid Workweek

Hybrid Workweek

 

Turns out

I’m a hipster after all.

I couch-surfed before

that was a thing, crouching

in the narrow space

so the kids could each have

a room of their own.

I did it again this week,

riding the wave of grief,

my father floating high

in the rented hospital bed.

My days split—where did they go?—

between home and away,

between Zoom and vacuum,

between the work of dying

and the work of staying here.

There have always been too many hats.

But I am a hybrid

and I will wear them all.