Kit Kelen #560 - Oblomov-ising or sleeps to go

560

Oblomov-izing

or

sleeps to go

backs flat

we say, counting

and hopefully a snooze on the plane

till home or away

taller after lying down though

from telling oneself tall tales

sleeps to go

we say, as a matter of anticipation

we think it's daylight does the trick

steps visible with feet obey

for sleeps to come

our yearning is workaday

and let's not cut it fine

a train is catching us

a last alarm clock rings

it's always summer in this suit

sky dark to smog – activity!

no one knows how many wakings till what (?)

say sleep for euphemism

only two sleeps for Jesus

then a resurrection

seven sleepers had a hundred years

Rip van Winkle was all about regime change

sometimes, as zombie

the take-away

is you're all sleeps to go

then how many wakings will it take

till I dream a way home?