Willis Plummer - ​winter morning (in bed) lyrics

in the bathroom taking a sh** watching the cat bat at my towel and rub against my calf i think everything is new to you then flush and brush my teeth before washing my hands in creaking hardwood floors i can feel the soft spots which at age seven i trained myself to avoid because i wanted to be a spy and spies need to know how to avoid making a sound my whole life i have trained to be a spy who avoids making a sound in the bed your snoring keeps perfect time they aren't even snores just little breaths, little wills to live i hold my breath so as not to wake you i hold my legs still for the same reason with a book in my hand i imagine a photograph of myself at age nine on stilts in the driveway of my grandmother's new jersey home i think i felt so much then i hear the cat and will it to climb into bed with us like my five and seven year-old selves climbing into the bed of my parents they were older then than we are now i listen to your breathing and the breathing of two brothers in the living and the cat licking up water like a dripping faucet i wish he would lick me up like a dripping faucet i don't think i've ever watched a cat eat anything i can't imagine such a tiny mouth swallowing up such big things