Life Or So It Seems

An Everyday
Your eyes are sticking together while sunlight stabs at your eyelids. Your body's not ready to move yet, but after over twelve hours of sleeping (not due to tiredness) you can't stay still any longer. The clock's been unplugged. Wondering what time it is you feel something jabbing into your back, and upon wiggling around the bed you discover it's your cell phone. "One oh-five..." you say in a sleepy voice. Thirteen hours of sleep.
You always stay in bed, every morning. There's nothing else for you outside, even when the sun's shining. Bed's preferred - - it asks nothing of you and you give it nothing in return, just sleep.
There's no one downstairs. You've walked down in a tank top and a pair of green underwear, looking around for any signs of life. There's nothing for you here.
You kill time by smoking a joint, by yourself. The coffee your family made this morning is in no comparison to how good it would have been fresh, but the beeping of the microwave helps fill the air, and you're too lazy to make a new pot. There are white swirls on the top of the aged brew, because it can't properly mix with the oldness, you figure, drinking it anyway.
Sitting around the house for seeming ages, you go and take a shower. The music's playing too loud and you can't hear your cell phone ringing... It's the cell phone company. They want your money and they want it now. You discover this upon blowdrying your hair a couple of songs later.
You took too much time yet again today, and are faced with running a couple of minutes to the nearest store and snaking some bus tickets. The bus is late.
Twenty minutes later you're walking into work. The manager hates you passionately, and doesn't even look at you as you walk by. You don't even bother to arm yourself with a smile. The next five hours are painful, but a friend pops in to visit you at work, trying to canoodle you to go out drinking. You pass.
The walk home is a little bit chilly, and you're cursing the sun for warming you. You could have been better prepaired if it wasn't so hot earlier. A half hour later you're back where you started, in an empty house. Only this time there are more people around.
You'll go to sleep and start the next day fresh... Only with the same happenings.

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