The glow of a city night comes in through my window And keeps awake my always-empty stomach and heart Night skies look sick with green And don't take well to light pollution Sleep doesn't come easy to someone so restless Though I need the fullness of oblivion now more than ever There is no right way to lay a restless head on a pillow To twist a hollow body under sheets That it will lie still in comfort Because emptiness folds painfully in on itself And I untwist, I unfold To accept defeat Propped on elbows, On a yellow legal pad in the yellow light I hold the sign of a night spent slowly: All forms of unhappiness are, on the inside, loneliness