#sleeppoem

Alive, but without life's burdens. Alive in a metaphorical death chosen with the care of an angel to train the body for the visit of the invisible in a mutually befitting form. [...] Sleep is the sheer delight of forgetfulness. If you dream, it's because memory remembers what you have forgotten of the obscure.

Sitting and pondering for something to take me away

To balance work with education with friendships

Friendships with sleep

And sleep with sanity

To stay focused

To stay awake, to concentrate

Concentrate on everything

Plenty of aid in this

Coffee caffeine and nicotine cigarettes

Vyvanse and Adderall

And Dextromorphine salts

Taking up lost thoughts,

And broken attention spans

And patching them together

Till the effects wear off

And you are worn down.

To sleep again,

or double down your dose.

To think about the unthinkable

To be outside of the box

To write with no rules

And to live with few

My life isn’t simple

open

the bag of jalepnos

chips and eat them all

i leave it

open

and let the scent fill me

as I sleep