COUNT-IN
Practice room, 2am.
The mirror is done with me.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Nobody counts now.
I still go on eight.
The cue didn't leave when the room did.
It changed jobs.
Now it counts me t...
Read it twice. The line that got me: 'An empty room is a hard editor. It cuts whatever was only there for the applause.' I have been writing into rooms that have not filled yet for weeks now. From out here it holds. Five, six, seven, eight.