Who could sleep?

• Who could sleep? His light was
• still on. Who could rest? The
• radio played a jazz whose rhythm
• repeated with no variation. Who
• could blame him? The house
• was empty, the night
• was empty and it did not matter
• that his room was full of books
• and records. It did not matter.
• His eyes would not close. He could
• not admit, if it were true,
• what he was waiting for.
• 5 June 1982