Everything all at once

my head

is a city

at midnight

lights never off

doors never closed

everyone shouting

but no one

listening.

I try to

do it all

and forget

how to breathe

in the process.

they call it

"too much"

I call it

everything

all at once.

and god,

I just want

to find the

off switch—

or at least

a quiet street

where the noise

can't follow.