Sleepless Nights and All That Nonsense.
When I say that I am afraid of sleepless nights, I mean that I am afraid of the silence that stretches like an elastic rubber band.It stretches and stretches to a crescendo and then snap! and I am asleep. My sleepless nights are like waiting for the farthest end of the rubber band to boing and hurt my finger. When I say that I am used to sleepless nights, I mean that habit is a beautiful deadener. You water a sapling day in and day out and bam! one day, it's a tree. You don't understand why the visitors are applauding you. After all, a sapling WILL become a tree unless a cow eats it up. What I mean is that sense of wonder can only survive so long! A poet's imagination is like that rubber band; it will stretch and then come back home. The poet will be fast asleep under the shade of mother-habit. I am lying here without sleep for centuries just like my ancestors. When I say that sleepless nights keep me healthy, I mean that my opinion matters. Poor old grandma is suppor...