Sleep____

SLEEP ____________________-

 

because i want

to know the

time, because

my nose runs -

because i like

the story

and because as least

I'm writing now and

because there's a line (a room -

room 1oh1? No that's something

else) I can't remember -

SLEEP because I write sleep -

I write your dreams in this

small space - because perhaps

it's better to be dead

because perhaps

I don't remember -

what I wrote

or who I text or -

or which classic - roman god is hunting me-

I (obiviously) forgot how

to make sense

just for the sense of why my

pen which of course isn't

sense - but is maybe

someone watching me?

(FLOWERS) I don't know

(present themselves -spring!

It is spring - perhaps - perhaps to

spring is - ) Paranoid!
Do not stress!
But I don't know -

SLEEP -  because

I don't know

but I'm sorry

and i'm tired.

                    .

                     .

 

And that is the

classic world, the

gods and the under

world -

but this is

real - coursework

and grandad dead

and cut/clash/cut

because this is

stories where the characters

I like do the things

classics do -

the witches die -

but english course

work i submit

but fashion (?) I submit

to,

but your cloak

I wear,

where words I ca-

cannont relieve my mind of

AND - where

Odysseus battles

Romans for

intergity

and in my classics

lessons, where

this is reals life this is;

___________________

 

Words will

not leave me

so me, I cannot 

leave

but me, I go to 

the underworld and

take chances (horse race bets and

chances) against the gods and

see - come what may,

because what the hell?

 

 

SLEEP______________________

 

when i'm drunk

I narrate my self 

in 3d 3rd

third person -

so much so

I can not sleep -

I tremble

and I ______
   Cannot sleep -

I want to

cry - and

scream -

but I'd wake

You? They - them -

No, I'm quite composed/confused.

And sad and achey -

Please! please

Let me

Sleep

___________________________________--

 

THIS IS

ME TRYING

TO GET MYSELF

TO SLEEP -

 

(LIKE EMILY

DICKINSON.)

 

 

 

(It's not working, is it?)

 

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Wow what a read
Very good

[EMF]

There are some wonderful touches here that bring the poem to fire, while other parts are merely just immensley good. I hope you see that for the compliment it is. Right now you have a good poem. A little editing and you could have Magma. Nevertheless, I'd still say 100

[Cassidy Mask]

streams of consciousness - even massive messy ones - often spawn the best ideas.
love all the references to classics.
love this:

"but your cloak
I wear,
where words I ca-
cannot relieve my mind of
AND -"