Monday, July 29, 2013

ATP


 
There’s a sleep switch in the brain –
a toggle in the hypothalamus
which flips to fog you into slumber –

put you under – undermine whatever
keeps you in the active grasp
of conscious living’s strain: exacting

your obedience to an expedient
immersion in the vat of its luxuriously
soporific stain. It keeps you sane.

It’s gained through the beneficent
release of some availing molecule
called ATP. ATP’s okay by me.



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