Keystrokes (Word Processing I)

shhhh...

he's sleeping
sprawled out on the floor and drooling
twitching at each keystroke

it's dark in here.

this transparent silence
constantly torn by rasping breaths and
broken by each desperate keystroke

fingers pulling through coarse hair
scraping against a scrubbed-dead scalp
a sigh, a yearning keystroke
each finger poking a hole