To "please deliver us
from fiction's
necessary evil"
is a tricky slope
down a bald
cliff face of "seems."
And to declare yourself
"a nonbeliever"
is tantamount
to saying that you
don’t need sleep.
From one second
to the next, both
is tantamount
to saying that you
don’t need sleep.
From one second
to the next, both
feel oddly
doable—but,
speaking of fact-
based: sooner
or later,
every living
body slips and falls
into a dream.
