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created_at = "2026-02-24T21:23:00+01:00"
published_at = "2026-03-14T11:35:33+01:00"
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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.