A Scene In Bed At Night Between The First Sleep and the Second - Allyson Dwyer

Lights up from a phone in the dark/The new proscenium/Eyes unfurled the curtains draw back

Sleeper
I read you earlier

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Did you really read at all/

Sleeper
I don’t need to know you

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Are you lonely?/

Sleeper
Only in my head

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I’m lonely/

Sleeper
I’m scared to be bored

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I’m forever screwed/

Sleeper
When I’m bored I’m trapped

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The world is cold/

Sleeper
This room is warm

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Is this where I find love?/

Sleeper
Is this where I watch you find love?

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What are you lacking?/

Sleeper Distance.

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Peace of mind/

Sleeper
Why don’t I have what you have?

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I’m only in the middle/

Sleeper
So there’s more to come?

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There’s more to lose./

Sleeper
I can see you have more than me.

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What ever happened to abundance?/

Sleeper
It’s here in my hands.

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A bunch of nothing./

Sleeper
Is better than being alone.

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We haven’t spoken in years/

Sleeper
I’m falling forward once again.

You hand longs for the other/ Pulsing blue under the moon/ To fit in within yourself once again / like some time ten years ago when the roof still felt attached to the world/ the train is a bullet out the station and your mind is tethered to its endless pull/ a global scroll/ trillions of heroes stories with no beginning middle nor end