Nightmares

I try to sleep,

  to access that

  secret world of

  dreams, but the

  world is keeping

  me awake

It’s so noisy here

  with the televisions

  and the radios

  and the politics

  and the excited chatter

    of teenage girls

If only I could

  slip into that world

  of daydreams where

  the only experience

  you need is a vivid

  imagination and belief

  of endless possibilities

But I am stuck

  in this endless nightmare

  of stores

  of traffic

  and deadlines

My ears full of

  controversy until

  I beg for the silence

  and darkness to take

  me away once more

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113 10/17/02; 11/7/02; 11/8/02

Help!!  Get me outta here!!