sleep came to me last night, standing at the edge of my bed pondering if he should come in and vist. not being one to sit idly by, i grabbed sleep my the front of his New York Ranger’s hockey jersey and had a little conversation with him. yes, sleep is a boy.

listen here sleep, i said. this has got to stop. i’ve done nothing to you, i don’t abuse you, i’m not asking for gobs and gobs of your time, just 6 or 7 hours a night. that’s not too much.

lookit this sleep, lookit this right here. how can you resist this red flannel? the down comforter wrapped in flannely stars? lookit sleep, look at these pillows? they are dying to be slept on. don’t deny the pillows sleep, be good to the pillows.

sleep just looked a me with his silvery eyes.

ok sleep, this is how it is. when you don’t come around, things get black and sad here. black and sad. when you don’t visit the big questions do. not so good, sleep. because the big questions ain’t any fun to deal with, much less when things are black and sad.

you know those big questions sleep. . . those ones that you can’t really answer, you know. will i ever find someone who wants to spend time with me? someone whose happy to see me home? will i get to raise kids, kids of my own? is the rabbit really silly? doesn’t he deserve trix?

see what i mean sleep? if you come, the questions stay away, or at least i can better ignore them on a decent night’s sleep. but no, sleep you don’t come to visit. you stay away. this isn’t cool sleep. because of the black sadness, the answers to those questions turn out quite negatively and then i cry. sleep! can’t you see. the rabbit needs trix! i need sleep.

so this is the way it is sleep. either you start coming on your own accord, or i’ll make you come. there are ways of making you come sleep. there are pills i can take. beer makes me sleepy too, i will drink beer. i will become a beer drinking, pill popping freak sleep. so here you go, sleep. it’s your last chance.

i ain’t messing around anymore.

and that’s the talk i had with sleep last night. we will see if things turn out differently tonight.