Psleep Poet Poem by Douglas Scotney

There is a suspicion,
shared in jealous Shakespeare's sonnet 86
re rival for Risley's* attentions, George Chapman,
that a poet who is productive in the morning
has been injected with supra-mortal powers
while asleep.

(Psst - it wasn't George's spirit-acquired poetry
that gave Will the sooks;
it was George's good looks.)

This suspicion has suspicioned me,
also a post-sleep poet; a p-s p;
a psleep with a silent p
(the first, as in 'sleep',
not the last as in 'pslee'.)