“The Long Nap” (poem)

I’m going to go to sleep

Until the world ends

I won’t bother with coming days;

Waking life has too much strife

Pain and death and sadness

Can’t trouble me when I’m in bed

Wars of words to draw me in?

I’m afraid I will be snoozing

Against the dreary day-to-day,

You’ll hear my wide mouth snoring

While I snuggle in my dreams,

Old right ‘n’ wrong will rage along

Good luck to you; you have my word,

I’ll check the score at crack of dawn

With a smiling face, I’ll say goodnight

Until some distant, wished-for day

When this wacky world of ours—

Its turmoil and absurdity—

Is through and done with, I’ll awake

And rise and stretch and give a yawn

And be quite pleased, well-rested too,

When all crazy things are gone.