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Article: Fatal Familial Insomnia.(Poem)(Brief article)

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November 1, 2006
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FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA 
 
   My family has a secret 
   aside the usual agog whispers of black sheep 
   and the black dog 
 
   it is the secret of insomnia 
   that leads to the grave 
   no-one knows when it will fall 
 
   neither daughters nor sons are spared 
   eyes will lie eerily open through the night 
   seeing the walls in shadow 
 
   and the fatigue will set in 
   the madness that seeps into everything 
   hallucinating, ...

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