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THE HOUSE OF SLEEP
Elizabeth Bartlett
The House of Sleep was originally published in 1975 by Autograph Editions in Colima, Mexico, and is now out-of-print. The author's literary executor, Steven James Bartlett, has decided to make the book available as an open access publication, freely available to readers through Project Gutenberg under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs license, which allows anyone to distribute this work without changes to its content, provided that both the author and the original URL from which this work was obtained are mentioned, that the contents of this work are not used for commercial purposes or profit, and that this work will not be used without the copyright holder's written permission in derivative works (i.e., you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work without such permission). The full legal statement of this license may be found at:
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To Paul
When you gave me a painting of hammocks,
I knew:
The dreamer tells the truth, the self awake
does not.
For years I raged against the images
you drew.
How they stared, gloomy shrouds, whenever I
forgot.
To rest, be still—I swore that was a way
of death.
Yet find more lives in sleep than I have years
ahead.