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I have taken to sleeping in the daylight.
I wear an eye mask for the sunlight.
I like to feel the sun through the window and my skin while I am sleeping.

It is quieter in the city on Sunday morning
than Saturday night.
Most any night really
is louder than its morning.

I have taken to sleeping in the morning
so that scary dreams no longer wake me
into a gloomy sea
of lightless rooms.

My cats prefer it this way too.
We no more compete for the real estate of sleep.
We no more trade our play for winks and winks for dreams.

I wish the whole world could know what it is like
to always see the sun when you wake.
I found it was always in the cool of night
I’d want to see the sun the most.
And in the absence of being, myself, a GOD
and seeing as how I cannot change the clocks
I just
quit my patterns
and my job
and sleep now the pattern
of all the cats
on the entire block.