how to ignore a snore. lesson one. befriend the silence in between its those breathes of fresh air that will stop all of your screams lesson two imagine the rattling of the jaw it’s knotting snot with gnarling gnaws the threads of spit twisting into little fits just invoking a little bit of choking so maybe then they’ll get this bit fixed lesson 3 see a bear, be a bear where there’s a bear, a louder one’s sound can also be found lesson 4 quickly retreat a white flag doesn’t mean defeat you’re just a person with fast feet looking for a quieter place to sleep with needs that need to be seen to immediately lesson 5 hallucinations of suffocation you’re delirious, it’s understandable. this pain and suffering, its instagrammable dreaming of mean things that could be seen as reprimandable… its best to let those go. lesson 6, 7 and 8 were skipped by mistake probably for sanity’s sake so here’s lesson 9 uhh but due to the author’s ongoing issues and the pile of tear-filled tissues i’m going to begin lesson 10 shake them awake