GOING TO SLEEP

the best thing in going to sleep


is the disintegrating thought

signaled in babble


with the world around you fading

and some inner scene leaps before


your attention with its own antic view

and "things to say"


like an overlay of two different worlds

concurrent in your bedroom


leaking dream-matter into the conscious brain

that suddenly pulls itself from this barrier


of shadow worlds and snaps awake for the last look

at the outer world slipping into darkness


and the dream world reasserting itself








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