Sick Day

Abstract

Sick Day Olivia Muenz (bio) I'm blah blah blahing all over the house.I catch your spit up in my hand.There is a suggestion of a baby but that is immaterial. I am home making.The floors sound off yellow, despicable.Everything has a spot but nothing fits. I am sweeping my floors with my socks.Sometimes I am too tired to leave couch.I am making home. There is a suggestion of home but that is immaterial.I catch your drift in the living room.I'm sorry for hogging the couch all day. My house is full of molecules.All my molecules are full of poison.Regardless my house is full and I have earned a new level of being. Sometimes I am too tired to do couch.Sometimes I am too tired to make you.Sometimes I am too tired to be material. But I am a homeowner now which means I am a dream.When can I expect you home.When can I expect you home. [End Page 268] Olivia Muenz Olivia Muenz holds an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University, where she earned the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose and served as an editor for New Delta Review. She is the author of the chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Black Warrior Review, Salt Hill Journal, Anomaly, Denver Quarterly's F I V E S, The Boiler, and elsewhere. She currently teaches at Louisiana State University. Find her online at oliviamuenz.com. Copyright © 2022-2023 Pleiades and Pleiades Press