QUOTE : Physics says: go to sleep. Of course<br />you’re tired. Every atom in you<br />has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes<br />nonstop from mitosis to now.<br />Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance<br />inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.<br /><br />Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch<br />by inch America is giving itself<br />to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness<br />lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.<br />You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be<br />one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.<br /><br />Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,<br />Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,<br />Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so<br />Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town<br />and<br />History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.