Time In Bed

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Illustration by Malaika Astorga

I love my bed

I love the smell of freshly laundered sheets

I love the warmth and weight of the sheets on top of me.

I spend so much time in bed

I have sex

I masturbate

I watch TV in it.

I aimlessly browse the internet

I listen to podcasts

I meditate

I read

I write.

Sometimes I cry in it

When

I feel sad

And

Find comfort in it.

But

I also have no respect for it.

I’m always eating in it

Spilling things

And

When I am sick I drool all over my pillows

And

I don’t change my sheets enough.

But

I know I’m always safe

Here in bed.

Laura Pearson is a Montreal-based artist and writer

@dressedbymum