[Ain’t]schuldigung

I woke up one fine morning
in a pool of tears
you shed last night

A lazy wood duck
floated beside me
making noises in German — oh fuck

All I heard was “Entschuldigung, Entschuldigung!”
like pinprick in my ears
and it rained in my room

I was flooded in uterine fluid
but whatever, I guessed I could finally go back to sleep
and be born again, pure, ain’t putrid no more

-Odis

(NB: Entschuldigung is German for excuse me)