Ring ring.

The ringing.

It’s always there, the ringing.

Drown out the ringing. Ignore the ringing. Mute the ringing.

I can hear the ringing around the corners. Under the cracks, the ringing.

I can see it in the dark.

Droning. Drowning. Ringing.

Sometimes it’s way down the hallway. Distant. Tiny.

Somedays it rattles the teeth in my head, the ringing.

A giant, 5 alarm ring.

Giant.