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To a Sleepless Poet

Call upon the muse
(for the publishers will not ever listen!)
Let us now invoke
the spirits of the late Allen Ginsberg,
or Percy Bysshe Shelly.
The baby is crying,
long sleepless nights make for classics.
A pen alone makes
a dream for the mind of an insomniac.