I awake at
3 am for no good reason,
pass water, drink water,
return to the womb.
This anomalous event
startling the
surveillance teams
into waking their superiors
Red telephones ring
as leaders of nations confide their long-held suspicions
Hurried ministers meet
Debates rage
long into the night
back and forth across the slim facts of the case
trawling for significance
But over the following hours
the talks
peter out
debated into inconsequentials
so that no trace appears
in the
morning papers