OR how I learned to not to hurt

Lugubriousness is best cured
with sleeping pills
for nothing stomps out grief
more efficiently than a
loss of touch with reality.
A few moments
spent shifting subtly
between life and the sublife
of sleep can solve
the most complex problems.
They advertise dreamless sleep
and no care for comfort necessary
but even sleeping pills
betray me
with violent dreams
and fitful thoughts
too subdued to care very much.
Sleep interrupts living
but living never minds.

07/07/2002

Posted on 07/07/2002
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