Leonard Cohen said it, Max.
On 01/08/2013, at 6:18 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In all this, Doug, we seem to be alike.
>
> I think this piece was meant to sound cocky and complacent at first, uncaringly unimaginative and unsympathetic to insomniacs, then overturned by misgivings.
> Others near me have been death-haunted from early youth, and they always make me feel thoughtless about what's most serious…
> Who said 'cheerfulness keeps breaking in'?
>
> Max
> On 01/08/2013, at 1:27 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> I tend to fall asleep easily too, Max. But never managed anything so thoughtful when waking, those moments during the night...
>>
>> And still manage to avoid thinking much about the end...
>>
>> Hmmnnn....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2013-07-31, at 1:18 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Getting to sleep is
>>> never a problem for me -
>>> well, almost never.
>>>
>>> Head lowered to pillow,
>>> eyes just close,
>>> breathing settles,
>>>
>>> I'm away.
>>> Sweet dreams, or none.
>>> Others, I know,
>>>
>>> speak of tossing
>>> and turning, dozing
>>> and starting up -
>>>
>>> full-on insomnia,
>>> flat out without rest,
>>> implying there's something
>>>
>>> nobly pathetic
>>> in wakefulness.
>>> Come off it! I do
>>>
>>> recall such nights, useful
>>> for thinking, planning,
>>> regretting also.
>>>
>>> Fearing the future -
>>> ever-nearing death -
>>> in the dark before dawn
>>>
>>> that's also much done.
>>> (How many sleeps
>>> till the big one?)
>>>
>>> So saying to myself
>>> in the dark, I hear
>>> two o'clock chime,
>>>
>>> three - enough, stupid -
>>> has to be concluded -
>>> to be concluded.
>
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