Current mood:
apathetic
Briar Rose
was an insomniac…
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince’s presence.
If if is to come, she said,
sleep must take me unawares
while I am laughing or dancing
so that I do not know that brutal place
where I lie down with cattie.
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What voyage is this, little girl?
This coming out of prison?
God help -
this life after death?
Anne Sexton