Sleep Deprivation
I've been awake for hours,
and all through the night,
I could not imagine morning,
the day as it turned out to be,
so hard to grasp, in truth, lies,
imagination, the copied moments
seemed so real... like life, with men
walking down the subway platform,
shivering like ghosts,
in formulaic pale,
whizzing transparent
as a dream escaping into reality,
and what can you really do? In delirium,
but keep writing, living, as seaweed
suspended in water like hair flowing
out
of liquid bedroom walls... this can't be
right, but left of me there's nothing,
save a voice that echoes on either side
of my head, signaling stereo brain damage
to my muse, who in turn tells me to keep
writing, because it's an opportunity
to let some new experience expose
in the light of day, like an untouched
photograph of a man you met once at a bar,
and God..
he had the craziest stories-
like this one time, the fool didn't sleep for a hundred hours,
because he felt like he was wasting his time,
and so he invested it, and lost everything
in a gambling match with his health,
wound up ten days later with no recollection
of enlightenment, hopped up on Thorazine
and broker than a camel, sleeping on straw
coloured hair, recounting everything
in fragmented
sections,
from the broad side of a pillow,
with love, and a fragile psyche,
but he's psycho, and sees text
as background to fantasy, passing
out...
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I litterally passed out after writing this, this is the now edited version.
Copyright © Ph.D Volo Von Wolfenstein | Year Posted 2011
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