This, Too - Edit3

[dukealien]

edit 2;

This, Too


Last night I nodded off
with television looking on–
flat-screen wonders, songs, and wars
played without me just the same.
I rose, back bent and sore,
at first begrudging time not spent in bed...
then smiled, acknowledging
this, too, was sleep.

I’ll rise from sleep another night
while this world,
its wars and rumors, songs and getting
churn along just fine
in my final absence.
Then I’ll glance down
(he looks so natural)
and smile, discovering
this, too, is rest.

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Thanks to @billy and @Keith.  Consensus is in, and it had to come at some point:  "stiff" was fun while it lasted, but in the end a distraction.

Hope that's enough double entendres  to make up for the loss.  

Not sure about the parenthetical now - it needs an exclamation point, but that looks wrong inside.  Italics?