The Unsleep Theory

You stare at things that have corners a lot. And you try to remember what you were thinking just before you started staring at that thing with the corner. You think all your ideas are killer, and then you’re pretty sure they suck, then great again, and then, well, then you’re not sure. So you look over at something with a corner and think about it. You start to wish someone would invent inner eye lid moisturizing cream. You feel your heart beating in strange places inside your body. Places you know you don’t have a heart, like inside your knee. Your sense of balance is slightly off. And you feel all floaty-sinky inside. Your laptop feels much warmer on your lap than usual. You hold the backspace key down too long every time. You spend 18 minutes trying to decide if "and" or "but" would be a more appropriate transition. But you’re not sure. Your mouse-eye coordination gets sloppy. You have to look up how to spell words like coordination. And it still looks wrong to you. You can’t figure out how to connect all the pieces and wrap it up. You doze off. You have a short dream about emailing the wrong files and screwing the meeting up. You wake up. You decide that maybe you could just sleep for a couple hours and then try to finsih it up early in the

~ written by Littlejohn
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