Thursday, April 09, 2009

Poem - woke up at 3 am

woke up at 3 am
didn't feel like sleeping

watched tv
but wasn't interested

paid programming
paid programming

at 4 am thought
i should go to sleep

danny wakes me at 7
phoebe off to school

(i admire the sink
and how it is bolted to the wall

best 350 bucks
i ever spent

and a job
well done)

2 comments:

The Rambling Taoist said...

I'm usually still up at 3 a.m. In the stillness of the night, it often amazes me what captures my attention -- a spider working it's way across the carpet, the missing grout surrounding the tiles of the kitchen floor (where did it go?) or simply the stillness of the night.

CM said...

At one time, just out of college, I worked nights as a security guard, we started at 12 midnight and finished at 8 AM. My favorite time of the shift was the wee hours -- between about 3 AM and 5 AM -- basically the time when anybody who was still awake was going to bed, and anybody who had to get up bleeding early was trying to wake up. And there I was, wide awake. It was cool.