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I hope the "sleep" function is working

You have fallen asleep with the radio on.

 

Electromagnetic waves push inanities

into air that should at this time be only for breathing.

 

I lie and wait for the dull click

that will bring silence billowing down

onto your slumber and my wakefulness

 

knowing that the same sound, too soon

will tear me from the sleep

I should have accepted I needed

much earlier.

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