#233 sleeplessness is a trick of light and shadow

sleepless i was a carnival of lights and images flashing and a hundred different tunes all playing at the same time all of it was a game a joke a trick to keep me from the dream i know will come where what i pretend can’t happen does maybe it’s better this way maybe it’s better for my own good or not i have peeked behind the iridescent curtain to glimpse the blurry fata morgana maybe it’s better this way maybe it’s better epw 12.9.07 perrysburg, oh