The intone, drone of lullaby speech

as fingers spin through silken split ends

Loafers pace (cream cable follows, swaggering)

Ruby glints over a hand's path

This booming man, vindictive veteran

Spins his faerietales of formulas, the

adventures of slope and correlation

Variables and intercepts fall like dust

into heavy eyes (as forehead hits hand)

lids sink, until jarring voice jolts me into

wakefullness.