this isn't a poem.
i really did not need today.
but i got it.
and i'm going to wake up in the morning.
waking up isn't as bad as i used to make it.
trying to fall to sleep, however,
is a difficult departure,
from my light into the dark,
and i, naturally enough, do not
prefer a cold envelope on
my right or left side.
i have to be read to sleep.
david sedaris every night -
i have all of his work on audio.
i can't sleep without it
because i'm scared of the silence.
dark is fine.
but not silence.
i can't be left to myself like that.
i always wake up starving.
QUIT STARING AT MY TAIL