the following poems are precursors to
what became a sleep-deprivation
thought experiment:

   - crown of myrrh / c'est la vie!
   - coming to december
   - hydry jawa (hydra's consciousness)
   - misery humour...

at first there's only the subjective observation,
but that is soon followed by
an undeniable objective fact - that:

these poems were written in frustration
at not being able to solve
    the times' (15th november 2017)
súdokū puzzles no. 9455 (difficult)
and no. 9456 (fiendish) -

out of a mere subjective account,
   i found my body dulled by a seeminngly
perpetual sleep,
            not morose, or numbed,
disorientated, but somehow muted.

my reaction was obvious:
  you need to be sleep-deprived -
the actual thought experiment happened
rather unexpectedly...

what i found the following incident is
that, in rare conditions,
   sleep-deprivation can allow the mind
to transcend a regular pattern of
sleep-rest, and engage in sleep-deprivation
overdrive...

        i only have one decent proof...
but it's a **** good one...
  
hours of being constantly awake?
      since 7pm yesterday...
   from 7pm today, at quarter past
10pm, that's: 27 hours 15 minutes...

   the times 20th november 2017
súdokū puzzle no. 9467 (fiendish) -
  and the proof is the solution, completed
in under 10 minutes:

          6 2 5 9 4 8 1 3 7
          9 7 3 1 2 5 8 4 6
          8 4 1 3 7 6 9 5 2
          3 5 9 7 6 1 4 2 8
          7 8 4 5 3 2 6 1 9
          2 1 6 8 9 4 5 7 3
          5 6 8 2 1 7 3 9 4
          1 9 7 4 8 3 2 6 5
          4 3 2 6 5 9 7 8 1

the actual answer to puzzle no. 9467
will only be available in
the times 21st november 2017
  t2 supplement, and if in desperation
you can only receive four clues
before midnight...
               but i'm cheap,
  can't be bothered to pay 75 pence
+ network access charge...
  for four numbers,
     when the ******* phone number
consists of eleven numbers.

believe me, i never thought that
sleep-deprivation, as a thought experiment
could achieve a lucidity of mind that
the otherwise sleep-recovery sometimes
merely dulls the mind...
notably via the dream fabric;

not so long ago i found dreams to be
exhausting,
        very much like the iron curtain -
they bugged me...
   intellectually depraved -
                     this velum somnium,
just like the velum ferrum spawned
the cold war, psychological warfare,
false information, distortions,
     exports of a "utopia" having been
established, nonsense of every calibre...
      no communist thought it was utopia,
but some people on the other side
of the iron grip must have thought so...
  or were subverted into thinking it was so...
hence the end result:
   the current zeitgeist.