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“Tap, Tap, Drip, Drip”

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📓 Monday, November 17, 2025 — 6:13 p.m.

Tap, tap, drip, drip — the rain saying hello on my roof.

I’m wrapped in a blanket, sitting on this comfortable old club chair, feet up on the matching ottoman, typing away. Again.

Took a bunch of medications today for this cough.

Might be a sinus infection.

Might be a lung infection.

Either way, I’m drugged up like a walking pharmacy.

Found out my liver sucks — can’t process cholesterol.

Explains the belly fat.

Explains why my body stores everything right up front like I’m hiding a secret.

The rain keeps tapping the ceiling.

Keeps insisting it’s here.

And why do I write again and again?

Because again and again, I need it.

Like medicine for a cold.

Like steam for a clogged chest.

Writing is how I decompress —

shitty thoughts, daily routine, all the noise that builds and builds until I have to let something out.

It’s not perfect.

But it’s honest.

And that’s enough for today.



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