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I sleep and sleep with a fire below my feet

I’m sick - You’re pure

I’m gorged face down on the floor wearing a violent lei and everybody hears you say, “He finally ate the Earth, and now he will sleep forever”

You all cheer

I am dead but I still feel fear

Is this bed built special for men like me?

What happens when the dreams run out?

When the meat is gone, I eat the bone

My sleeping body can feel whispers gathering around my crown

What are they saying?

Are they worshipping me or cursing me?

What have I learned?

Sleep is the enemy

But now I see a figure approaching me

It is cloaked in gold and begins to run at me with its mouth agape

As it draws closer I am bludgeoned paralyzed from the fear of being eaten

Now ten feet away I am dumbfounded to see my face staring out from behind its jaws

I ate the Earth because my hunger was unruly

And now it eats me just as cruelly