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    At 4 a.m.

    After Wendy Cope’s ‘At 3 a.m.’

    You don’t sleep how you used to
    Because of what you left for them
    In a box you filled
    For decades
    So they could sleep.

    Notebooks lie open on your head.

    You left the box there years ago,
    And you want to know
    How good their sleep feels,
    And if they now know
    What you always knew too.

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