not being able to breathe/through his nose/wakes him up.

he gets up/gets toilet paper from the bathroom/and tries to blow his nose.

the results are, in the other sense of the word, baffling: deviation of septum/and scar tissue/have made baffles/that make it difficult/to clear the way/for air intake and egress.

so he meanders to the fridge/and slugs down some chocolate milk/right out of the jug/and strawberry lemonade/right out of the carton. he hasn’t had a visitor for months/so what the hell.

then he pulls his phone from its charger/and solve nyt wordle/and words with friends moves/and goes to his blog/and writes this.

the airway has meanwhile mostly cleared/of its own accord.

the alarm will sound/in thirty-five minutes.

going back to bed.