At 4 a.m. this morning, my niece was calling out in her sleep again for almost an hour, so I grabbed my laptop from the floor beside the bed to record her comments. Then as I was about to fall asleep with my computer on my lap, I had an idea for a poem. Without opening my eyes, I wrote it down before going back to sleep. Here it is, as I discovered it when I woke up this morning:
I’ve been axeoa rhw oxwN.
I’CW Ailws xeoaa rhw aw
ONLY RO SIAXOCWE
RHWEW IA NO PLxw doe mw
aILIF ON RHW VEINWY,
Ailinf on rhw qrwe.
InarwS I’M ARyinf ahoewaisw
wzXRLY QHWEW I OUFHR RWE.
My advice? Never write a poem in the middle of the night with your eyes closed.