inner life / clean bedsheets

Itching for a buongiorno message: illustrator noemi ponzoni sketches out the sweet and unnecessary things we do to feel less lonely

By Noemi Ponzoni

So much inner life

It’s sticky and I can’t get out of bed

I do the snow angel on my duvet

Count to ten, then check my phone

I itch for a buongiorno message

Dim morning light

I open the window to savour the day and

immediately regret it

I work at my desk

I ask the internet to please just

be silent for two hours or so

I have three Kinder chocolates

When I’m lucky to remember,

I watch the early sunset

I sit on my yoga mat and 

sometimes even stretch on it

A Cherry Coke soothes the nerves - it’s 

sweet and unnecessary

Rarity has made 

sweet and unnecessary

very valuable to me

At night I forget 

to call a friend

I listen to Sade

I almost ask of the future

- please? 

then think better of it.

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