I must be supremely sleep deprived
even though last night I exceeded
my sleep goal—one of the few
goals in my life that can be measured
by silicon resting on my wrist—
because all day long whenever
a thought passes through whether
in the present or the actual past
it seems to be interrupted by
a half memory of a dream state
imprinted as if on the water
of the mind before disappearing
until the next moment passes
even a brief blink of my eyelids
and I am back in a reverie
approximate reverse of waking
is it possible to live permanently
in a state of deja vu without ever
knowing precisely what you are
pre-experiencing? it is exhausting
living in such wobbliness must be
time to go back to bed already
Joshua Keiter 