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Troublemakers

Can't sleep? Why not? Drink a lot? Feverish hot? Indigestion? Sinus congestion? Arthritis pain? Half insane? Constant wheezing? Bouts of sneezing? Drug abuse? Device overuse? Relative died? Stock market slide? Spouse cheating? Overeating? All these are troublemakers, true Others sleep ~ Why's insomnia picked you?

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Michelle Faulkner

Date: 9/17/2018 2:22:00 PM

This sounds like the start of some slick sales pitch (I mean that as a compliment, believe it or not)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/17/2018 6:17:00 PM

Hmmm. If it's insomnia that's being sold, don't buy it, Michelle!!

Ilene Bauer

Date: 9/17/2018 11:50:00 AM

great poem, gershon! alas, none of your reasons apply to me but i have been having many bouts of insomnia - wish i knew of a way to turn off the mind...

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/17/2018 6:17:00 PM

---just as they don't apply to me either, and boy do I have insomnia bad...

Tom Cunningham

Date: 9/17/2018 3:15:00 AM

Shame we can't delete these from our brains hard drive, oh to have a good nights sleep. Tom

Gershon Wolf
Date: 9/17/2018 6:16:00 PM

You're so right...But once insomnia strikes, I don't think it ever goes away...It's just kind of lurking there, waiting to strike again and again and again...