Caffeine Song #3

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The shrill, nasal neigh-laughter from next door indicates that one of the twenty-somethings who slum it Sarth on Daddy’s patronage has just told the funniest joke ever known or is otherwise a tedious, trust fund twat.

It’s 4am, the baby’s sleep is shot, screaming her tiny lungs out in sheer panic at realising she’s alone in the dark, which is perhaps the source of each forced laugh: I loved your shitty joke, please love me back.

I wonder if I’d be as crotchety if they kept me up while fucking like foxes til they were raw in throat and fundament? I rise, see what delights the nappy holds. The laugh trails off. I’ll give them two more months.

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