"Sleep"

i've had about as much sleep as peace
on my pillows of fowl
sneezing back the grains of sorrow
drowning in plans and everyone else's
tomorrow

love found me about as often as war
and everyone who's fought
got their medals
and rarely wake to walk
anymore

to my door
to the horror of the dreams
I should be seeing
every night
instead my fatigues fight
and I can't even write what I hear
cite what I feel
in any make
shape
form
order one more musing meal
all gone to waste...

because when those rolling blue windows
on shores laced with cinders
blew through the bowels of burden
we "Do not disturb"ed and
stayed inside the white lines
never tasted new wines on those hills
or those one-way window sills
we called responsible
maturity
damn all that duty
people feel what they sense
they sense what is real
and when the truth sits to mildew
it shatters all the glass and pins you

ends you

ellee 2002 10-16-2002 1
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