Prodigal Internal Alarm Clock Poem by Diana van den Berg

Yeee haaa!
After being awol
for a decade or so,
my internal alarm clock
has slunk back
into the corral
and is slicker than ever
by four full minutes...
and now when sleepiness kicks me
like a bucking bronco’s hooves
between my eyes,
and I can’t work
a second longer,
I can saddle up my internal alarm clock
and get a full night’s sleep
in six glorious minutes,
and wake like a Jack-in-a-Box,
refreshed and ready
to gallop through
hours and hours more work.