Detail from “ANA20130626163823 (Close Encounter)”. 2013. Don Winiecki/ANA

Sleep

Don Winiecki
Poets Unlimited
Published in
1 min readDec 27, 2015

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Sleep doesn’t care what time it is.
Sleep always uses its quiet voice.
Sleep never misses an opportunity.

Sleep raises pigeons in a coop on the roof.
Sleep always carries spare batteries.
Sleep vacations in Sweden, in the summer.

Sleep has a Master’s degree in economics.
Sleep once had homes in Ottowa and Canberra.
Now, sleep stays in New York City or Paris.

Sleep worked through college selling encyclopedias.
Sleep never sees it coming.
Sleep is comfortable in its own skin.

Sleep never shaves on weekends.
Sleep wears zero-lift shoes.
Sleep never forgets Mother’s day.

John Cage kept sleep on retainer.
Once sleep gets going, nothing can stop it.
Sleep likes doing the dishes.

Sleep doesn’t need big data.
Sleep has a very busy social calendar.
Sleep likes Monet’s lilies period.

Sleep doesn’t do anything half way.
Sleep never forgets a face.
Sleep always flies business class.

Sleep prefers listening to hip hop.
Sleep let its bus pass lapse.
Sleep contracts out for dreams.

Sleep never misses the evening news.
Sleep belongs to local 762.
Sleep uses Linux — but always one version behind.

Sleep carries its wallet in a front pocket.
Sleep talks with a smile in its voice.
Sleep is non-denominational.

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Don Winiecki
Poets Unlimited

Sociologist(ish), technologist(ish), artist(ish), poet(ish) of the inbetween, the spaces-left-free, the not-yet-defined that continually emerges in modernity