Snoozing the Alarm Again

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My body is torn between coming alive
and pretending to be dead;
clearly the former is the superior option, but it's just
so much more work.
Alarm goes off like the barking of dogs
and I reach out,
snooze it again, again, again.

Eventually my mom yells at me to get up already,
and the day begins.

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