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diff --git a/poetry/a-young-child-sleeps-alone.md b/poetry/a-young-child-sleeps-alone.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a39a939 --- /dev/null +++ b/poetry/a-young-child-sleeps-alone.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ ++++ +created_at = "2026-02-24T21:23:00+01:00" +published_at = "2026-03-14T11:35:33+01:00" ++++ + +a young child sleeps alone +in a nook at the party +while grown-ups talk and talk, +i am sitting at the boundary +between the two rooms, +two ages now, i remember drifting +between being awake and asleep: +awake to being tired and feeling +like no other child, in the group-- +only a side-effect of being in a grown-up +gathering--resonated with me, +too young, too old, but it was nice +to talk to the grown-ups sometimes +about being asleep +dreaming +about being awake +as a grown-up +dreaming +about being asleep +as a child. |