Someone's Skin

To slip inside someone’s skin

Means to know the sounds the dryer makes on Sunday afternoons

As it battles and kicks around the socks and smelly Tom's inside it’s belly.

It’s the wisdom inside the shower;

Water gets hot fast but comes out slow.

It's the groaning of the floor boards

As they support the soft footsteps of your drowsy, midnight bathroom trips.

There is no clicker to rewind.

And just pull a little harder on the cabinet, it won’t break.

Thousands of times the oven will spit clicks before fire,

It just needs a little time.

But those sunrises on the way to work,

Boy are they fine.

Even if my car never stops at those red signs.

To slip inside

Means to notice all the things we never notice.