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lil  ·  4161 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: Sleeping Around

SLEEPING AROUND

When you get older

You will stop sleeping

Or you will sleep fitfully

  & if you have more than one bed
  you will visit them all --
  and the sofa
  and the floor
  in the course of a night.
In the course of a night

You will understand

The expression "toss and turn"

  Toss the blankets, sheets, pillows
  Toss your bedmate to one side
  & the other
  Lie face to face
  Face to feet
  Turn your back, your front
  Left side, right.
Turning and turning in your widening gyre.

Your king bed isn't big enough for the royal we.

When you get older.