Just Imagine!

Oh! How absolutely strange 

This life shall someday be, 

When days and nights, no longer are

Consumed with unslept sleep. 

Imagine falling into bed

Without encyclopedia head. 

And  zillion of stickies 

All pink, green and blue 

Crammed full with reminders 

Of things I must do.

And piles of  articles,

Waiting review.

For PowerPoint slide shows  

To write and present, 

On the history of OTA's

Next  president.

Or three major tests, 

To show all that I know 

'Bout  muscles and motions 

That wiggle your toe.

And how to get babies,

To roll, creep and crawl 

And using otolithic organs      

To prevent a fall!  

Say, have you ever woken up 

Wholly shaken, in a sweat,

Relieved that it was just a dream 

And trying to forget, 

That moment,  in your deep, dark dream; 

It's finals,now?! You want to scream, 

As Dr. Doom-stein hands you one 

That's printed  in Chinese?!

Or dreaming that as you arrive, 

All breathless, Monday morn', 

Your caught off guard to find out 

That today it is your turn-

To lecture about topics 

That you haven't ever learned, 

Like taping, splinting, casting, fixing, 

Dyskinetic worms! 

And how to make cool sock aids  

For some big, tall astronauts, 

Who fly 'up to the moon, and then

Can't  reach their space-suit socks!) 

Just imagining such a night, 

When I lay down to sleep, 

My dream all  pink and peachy cream   

Like cozy, cuddly sheep....

I think I'll sleep a zillion years 

And wake up in the spring 

To smell the roses all abloom

And hear the Robin sing:

"Wake up! Wake up now, sleepy head!  

It's time to have some fun.

Your patients wait, now don't be late, 

Your work has just begun! 

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