<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Elegy for Sleep</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">Half dead, seeking what some call sleep,</span><br aria-hidden="true" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">I saw Socrates eating tree-bark on Mt Olympus.</span><br aria-hidden="true" class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">I saw the deeds of a lost continent’s forgotten spirits.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">I was an intruder there, wielding a rubber spear,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">speaking a future tongue to pierced ears.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">It’s possible to black out, even in dreams.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">I was victim of my own imagination’s schemes. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">Detritus of stone heads, marble chests.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">Ruin of hoarders in a dark recess.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">I am always dying half-deaths, never arriving</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">at unbroken rest. Always reviving </span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">the unreal patterns of another life,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class="">the colors and tatters of dreaming night.</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Zach Horvitz</span></div></body></html>