So I played with Garageband's loop library today and decided to finish a poem and record it. It's my first recorded poem, hope y'all like it! (I don't have a piano so I can't really do the music myself and the ending for this piece is a bit abrupt. If anyone wants to collab I'd be happy to play ball!)
I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep
There's no way I can sleep
My eyes itch
My throat is ticklish
My nose is invaded by little fish
I lay awake
Listen to the quiet hum
Of the AC and then some
Oh please just get me some rum
A couple shots later
All seems a lot calmer
But then I falter
For now I feel like some water
So up I get
To the kitchen I go
To fetch a glass of H2O
And I'm back to square one.
I can’t sleep
There’s no way I can sleep
So I might as well read
In these pages we shall meet
Just you and me
Your mind I’m walking through
And I have to say it’s quite a zoo
Oh but now I need the loo
I’m back and I hope you haven’t left
That would certainly leave me bereft
For now I know why I can’t sleep
For you have committed a theft
I know it’s kitsch (and I still have that itch)
But you’ve stolen my heart
I feel it in my gut
And it’s not just ‘cus of late night nibbles
Oh I can’t sleep
There’s no way I can sleep