Archive 10/16/09

   

Bollixed

                                                                  

 

It went without saying (or should have, anyway),

That since you didn't go to sleep, last night,

Rather stayed up, watching TV, from dusk to dawn,

You didn't wake up, this a.m.

But that was just the rub;

Not waking up left you in a highly untenable position —

Dead, so to speak.

 

On the surface, it would seem obvious enough:

You stay up all night, you literally don't sleep,

Experience no recess from activities,

Get no rest for your deprived flesh and bones,

Miss out on the necessary replenishing of energy,

Lacking which, decisions get botched, rhythms go berserk,

Tongues issue malicious epithets they later regret.

 

Yet apparently (or so it seemed to all the few

Who expressed concern for your condition),

Something more than slightly sinister

Had bollixed the cogs of the cognitive mechanism

Responsible for your distinguishing one sleep from another,

Causing you to believe you'd ceased being,

For having failed to wake up from a sleep you never slept.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                               

 

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