Screwed Up Sleeping Pattern Rant

By Demosthenes

Total Gym
We'll sell you God!
1ct tanzanite
Sex talk
Gazelle Freestyle Elite

O GOD! CAPTAIN PLANET! YAY!

And sex
And more sex
Insomniac Music Theater
Hey, they spell theatre wrong!
Screw early morning infomercial TV
I'm tired of Girls Gone Wild convincing me that
America
Has no
Self-decency

Damn TV off
Pose in front of the mirror
Trying to find an angle
Between all the blue dry-erase marker
That makes me look thin

Paint my nails
Purple and yellow
Another five minutes burned
Don't want a perfect sunless tan
Show me a singer who can sing

Lie on the floor
Arms and legs striped red and white
From clawing at them
Subconsciously

Put on black eyeliner
It makes me think I'm pretty
At 5.00 in the morning
What a laugh
I can't even get my fingers through my hair

Want to win a cruise to the Caymans
That would be almost as great
As the word "shindig"
And I wouldn't need a sunless tan

All the blankets are wrinkled
Wish I could stop rolling around
And count a lamb or two

If you were here
I'd let you hold me
Maybe if you kept me warm
I could get some sleep

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Published on Wednesday, June 11, 2003. Filed under: "Rant"

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Comments on "Screwed Up Sleeping Pattern Rant"

A former member wrote: I liked your poem, terse and trite like haikus woven togather, creates an image worth thousand words. A style hard to think. I fell through the columns like an autumn leaf.
On Sunday, February 17, 2013, BetaWolfinVA (795) wrote:

i love the way you complain about the excreble matter that they have on late night commercials, i also live the plaint at the end about the absense of someone special - well executed
On Sunday, September 30, 2012, Ortolan (214) wrote:

After having been through the same thing as the title suggests, this is all very easy to understand, and a testament to commercialism and superficiality and a grand and morbid scale.Good work.
A former member wrote: totally random, yet it made sense. i love it
On Friday, July 29, 2005, TheBardOfBlasphemy (358) wrote:

hmmm I know this feeling. sometimes really interesting words combos can come out of nowhere...
A former member wrote: 'Words comes from nowhere' this happens with me but in a blue moon. How to make them come too often. Please advise.
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, Im_going_to_cry_now (24) wrote:

nevertheless, this is a great poem and I applaud it
On Saturday, December 11, 2004, Im_going_to_cry_now (24) wrote:

theater can be spelled either way, and Captain Planet kicks ass
On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, Invader Lyn (48) wrote:

This rocks, it's going on my favorites. Everything you've described I've felt sometime within the last four days. It's good to know others are going through the same nightly hell! Great rant, I love it.
A former member wrote: Every clean windows?Dont!
A former member wrote: Every - y= Ever: Ever clean windows?Dont!
A former member wrote: I really like it.
On Saturday, February 7, 2004, Johny_D_Lewis (467) wrote:

5am I'm at work, but its still the same being nocturnal. Daytime people making noise..I toss and turn a good amount, great write!
A former member wrote: arg. wasn't finished. stupid truncading
A former member wrote: I hate insomnia! Switching from channel to channel to channel and guzzling warm milk till I'm about to spew *swithces channel* Ohh! where did she get the whipped cream! This date is getting from hot to - *click* ...below freezing. But still, our trekkers
On Thursday, June 19, 2003, Elf (47) wrote:

i can identify. at five a.m. i feel like crap with my incoherent thoughts and the shit that passes for television at that point in the day. great poem! i love it.
A former member wrote: geat write, i like craziness,,, but not sleep deprivation
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, Sinnocence (49) wrote:

wow i actually got the feeling of restlessness just from reading it. i know what its like to be so absolutely bored in the early am. great write!