after lying on that bed for over three decades
suddenly i woke up to a shocking awareness
that my snug sleep for such an extended period
was actually on a rock in the wasteland
whose geological origin, or chemical composition
little i had known; sleep for so long attracted not
my eagerness to explore, while many eerie snakes
and slothful insects visited this space in my absence
but now in my abrupt wakefulness, will i
turn, then, to another couch, or curse the old
before i continue sleeping into a longer sleep
that perfect merging within the womb
