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I Am So Tired

I am tired of counting the red dwarf stars in the Milky Way. I am tired of counting the 7 years of grain in Pharaoh's silos. I am tired of counting the steps to the sacrificial altar of the Chichén Itzá pyramid. I am tired of counting the people swallowed by the Antioch earthquakes of 115 & 526. I am tired of counting the victims of the 1737 & 1839 India cyclones. I am tired of counting the departed from the Influenza Epidemic of 1918. I am tired of counting the death toll of the 1931 China floods. I am tired of counting the total military and civilian casualties of WWI and WWII. I am tired of counting the number of Jews killed at Auschwitz, Belzec and Majdanek. I am tired of counting the drowned in the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. I am tired of counting the biomass of plankton in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I am tired of counting the needles on the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center I am tired of counting the cracked and dirty windows at Riker's Island prison. I am tired of counting down the clock until the our Sun becomes a red giant and dies. God help me! I can't sleep. I can't sleep. I can't sleep... I'm immortal. I have OCD. I'm so tired of counting sheep.

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Date: 7/4/2015 11:48:00 PM
Beryl, CONGRATULATIONS, on having your poem featuredonce again on the soup's home page. Enjoy the coming week. Take Care ~SKAT~
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Date: 5/5/2015 5:28:00 PM
Amazing & very real
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Date: 5/3/2015 8:57:00 PM
Beryl, Congratulations on having your poem featured this week. SKAT love
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Date: 9/14/2013 7:22:00 PM
Beryl, CONGRATULATIONS, on having your poem FEATURED on the soups Home Page:-). Good-Night **Linda**
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Date: 9/7/2013 12:35:00 AM
I really enjoyed this.
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