040720

sleep eludes me
yet I can't get up
clock seems asleep too

100919d

Sharks never stop swimming
if they do, they sink
sharks never stop thinking
nor can they sleep
but their whole lives
are waking dreams
of eating whales
and kraken
and things the world has never seen
not since the bomb that broke the world
65 million years ago

100219

moving the alarm
to Betelgeuse did the trick
can't hit the snooze now

091919

Woke up in a strange place
My hands around someone's neck
It's face turning a beautiful cerulean
All of its eyes
Entwined with my own
But something was wrong
It was trying to speak
Then I realized
It was myself
And I could not say a word

073019

help
help
she cried
in her sleep
monsters pursued her
I assumed, but she was at work
the usual stuff: she never suffered fools gladly

111218b

if you all died, the small boy said,
then who would tuck me into bed?

102618c

sleeping on sand
but not really sand
silicone beads the side of sand grains
dancing on air
roaring like a hair dryer
all to help me heal
but will I really sleep

062418

awake till sunup
no biggie in summer
hospital window

021618

3 nights
w virtually no sleep
cue the hallucinations

110817c

A cherita


All night the dog is moving

claws and then a sigh on the wooden floor
thump and then a sigh on the dog bed

she sleeps all day
restless all night
waiting for morning, breakfast, a walk

110717b

how many
died peacefully
but unnecessarily
before CPAPs were invented

073117

I slept twice
this afternoon and thought it tomorrow
wishful thinking

072117

I have spent most of the week in bed, getting no exercise, so naturally, after staying awake past midnight, I was wide awake at 5 am, anaerobically exercising my arms. argh!

breathing easily
after waking too early
I should be grateful

060517b

early morning seems so EARLY
when the sky lightens
how different evening thought it
when I made my plans
thank God for snooze bots
and tomorrow morning

053016c

Charles didn't realize he'd slept through the apocalypse until he woke up on a singed mattress, hurtling through an airless void, and surrounded by billions of uncaring stars.

100415

Insomnia

reading all night

sleeping all day

haven't got 8 uninterrupted

since I don't know when

heard on the news this week

if I don't get 8 every night

it'll kill me—well, fuck

something gets everyone don't it