Express It In Eight Poems

insomnia blues

Wild Things

Sam Adams often had a problem
Falling asleep, and staying asleep
Had the insomnia blues
Wild things came out to play
At 0 dark hundred hours
He would stare at the walls
Imagining all sorts of dire things
Until blasted awake by the morning sun.


FALLING ASLEEP

WHEN IN DOUBT

Note: “ 0 dark hundred” is military/intel slang for the hours just before dawn the darkest time of the night between 2 a.m and 4 a.m.