Saturday, January 15, 2011

Sleep

You think you can shut this down
Grand Central at midnight
Trains inbound and out
Generator in overdrive—
How do you sleep?

You entreat with a pill
Count sheep on the wall
Here in the caffeinated city
Your graffiti on every car of
Every train, every sign

Pointing to a night at the theater:
Rumbles in the station, panhandlers
Rap music, lost chances
Lost potential romances colliding within
And tell me how will you fall

Asleep?

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