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Poem Details
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| Title: | Slow Sleep |
| Author: | James |
| Date Submitted: | 1/19/2010 |
| Email: | jimellner@hotmial.com |
| Poem: |
Wake in the haze of dawn''s mystification The five a.m. perplexity Coffee the elixir of consciousness I crawl like the human animal that I am from my futon The joy of not waking void Laying in wait to know what to do next Not knowing the day Saved from psychotic arousal And like a meandering stream my day unfolds Creature duties Injected with a line or two of today''s mental map Removed by over a half century, by the progenitor that gave me life I''m them now, senior years and final acts with my progeny. ... |