Trying to Sleep
I don’t want to get up to
Turn off the lights
So I wait until
I have to piss so
I can kill two birds
With one stone
I lie here in bed waiting
For those beers to hit the
Bladder, that way I can
Mosey on with my business and
Get some sleep for the night.
But the beers aren’t
Hitting the system yet, which
Might be why this poem blows.
I just stare at the light
Above, now with a migraine,
Just hoping I have to
Take a leak soon.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Bo Ransom received his English degree from Baldwin Wallace University, where he was published in the university literary journal, The Mill. He has also been published in Poets’ Choice Anthology of Poems: Close Friends and Relatives. He lives in St. John, USVI.
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