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What is there to want to be?

When one has always known?

As a child I saw my cat asleep

and thought "god please let that

be me!" The tyranny of waking up

absorbs the rest of waking life

all hopes, all dreams, are bottled

in this desperate wish, more mad

than to be famous or an artist or

a scientist or all at once, but just

to be asleep when I so please 

as I so please so please god 

help me, let me sleep.