A Day Like Every Other

I warn you, I have had much cabernet, but I'll take you up on the Derri-duh challenge...

Sunlight slices through the blind - do you need "through"?  Slices the blind is quite dramatic.

the anonymity
of ten thousand variations on a theme

• what do you think of:

anonymous to
ten thousand variations on a theme

?

First light nerves etc... have you ever used some compound words in your poems?  I don't remember.  Anyway, I can't help thinking that here would be a good spot to break them in.  Like:

First light nerves
shredcrushpack
in a box marked...

I really don't like pleading the fifth -- I find that cliched and too obviously trying for a punny tie-in.  It's unsubtle.  

Pregnant future likewise, it's been used too many times before.  You could always have a gravid future though.

Like the last stanza much.  I think it's the hurling.  It makes me happy.