Not Sleeping

[poliphilo]

I don't sleep well these days. I'm not complaining; I'm just stating it as a fact.

I took extra pain killers last night. They didn't send me to sleep. They just made my head buzzier.

I lie awake and plot my novel.

The man next door works unsocial hours and has a terrible cough. Huh-hurr, huh-hurr, huh-hurr.

Those people with the yard dogs- how can they stand that incessant racket up close? They must be old and deaf.

The less I sleep the more intensely I dream. Last night Laurence Olivier was directing me in Macbeth. He was explaining his own greatness to me. "Maybe it's not where I come from," he said. "It's from whence I came."

Comments

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

I guess it's--three in the morning where you are, and I do hope you are sleeping well, or at least having more interesting dreams!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I slept a bit better last night. My arthritis is playing up, probably because of the turn of the season. The air is damper or drier or colder or warmer or something....