deep sleep

it felt like empires rose and fell while i was snoozing there.
deep dreams, big adventures
all obliterated in an instant by the deet-deet-deet
of the digital alarm clock

(na ja
i pause to think about everything)

clock-clock-clock goes the tock on the wall
click-click-click goes my swatch

deep-deep-deep goes the clinking of my dreams
and so-so-so goes something else i can't identify

a cat is growling in the hallway
like someone drawing a bow across the lowest string of a cello

and vienna's noise is white and low