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# Perchance, perchance not...
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/perchance-perchance-not/
- Published: 2025-12-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: My nightly quest to find oblivion is not unlike a tired daytime soap. Late. Early. Drink. Don't Drink. Keep TV On. I wake at 3:00 AM to sulk and mope.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

My nightly quest to find oblivion  
is not unlike a tired daytime soap.  
Late. Early. Drink. Don't Drink. Keep TV On.  
I wake at 3:00 AM to sulk and mope.

No, I'm not one of those who need four hours.  
I want my eight, and no, don't wear an Oura.  
I'll lie in bed and use my rhyming powers  
for sonnets on them Sodom and Gomorrah.

How strange, our brain? Not giving it a rest,  
when rest is so most fervently desired?  
It's not as if it doesn't know what's best,  
or lacks a definition for "I'm tired."

Dear God, I want to sleep, perchance to dream!  
A talking head talks changing the regime.

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**Author notes:** image generated by author prompt to Gemini