Here he comes again with a sigh
The bastard associate who leaves a double black eye
Recapping the day by night
Fast-forward, rewind: constant renewal
Active defrag process stuck in a loop
Adumbrate jumble decompressing
Tossing and turning
Floating on a dead sea of nonsense
Just waiting here in this indent
Play on
Jealous of my sleeping lover’s breath
Tiresome twilight cadence
Accompanying this tick-tock torture
A grudging state of consciousness
Somewhere between hangover and caffeinated pick-me-up
An imperfect equilibrium as unsustainable as a hot-wired car
As witching hour’s half-truth familiars clamour to be heard
Monsters denied by daylight manifest in monochrome
Carry me away…
Then the conscious mind’s dead-man’s switch
Provokes an involuntary twitch
With a snort, awake again
F**k…!
I was actually asleep then!
Asleep
Now killing time with a call of nature
Bouncing off the walls like a drunk in a hotel corridor
Malco panda with swimming-pool eyes
Resigned to this fish-eye lens
Black hole focal point
Where ideas flare in the darkness
Bubbles of insight rising and bursting
Disappearing, fading back into the night
Presque vu never to be told
Leaving a line or two, a skirting recollection
Muted anger
Alert in this half-baked way
Half an hour before the alarm
Drift away at last
To be woken undead
Another day to go
Praying for sleep
Before a return to bed
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