On late nights and long days

Staying out all night
partying like a rock star
makes a happy James.

But work the next day,
fighting just to stay awake
is no fun at all.

Still, I can't resist
the lure of good times with friends.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Insomniac brain
Likes to play Show and Tell with
Painful memories


When it's 4am and I have to get up for work in three more hours, is that really the time to think about how in the second grade I made a little girl cry by throwing sand in her hair?