freeze frame, don’t move,
just like that, but maybe fix your face,
or not,
no, it’s fine, i won’t say anything if you don’t,
but maybe we won’t use this photo
for the xmas card?
go to sleep,
go to sleep,
go to sleep,
stop scrolling through reddit,
stop trying to learn spanish,
stop listening to music that sounds the same
and is on a loop because the algorithm that feeds it to you
doesn’t know when to stop,
but you should,
now go to sleep,
make peace with the fact that you can, and will,
repeat this whole process over and over again,
though maybe do some exercise tomorrow to wear yourself out,
so tomorrow when you need to go to sleep,
go to sleep,
go to sleep,
you won’t have this issue again
Fred Aiken Writing 