April 16

Some couches understand when it is time for bed

Not this one I'm afraid, it wants to play instead

It waits until I'm comfortable, then it prods my back

Like a curious toddler testing the limits before a smack

The armrests are to sleep what Donald Trump is to politics

Completely incompatible and always up to tricks

Perhaps I'll lose a limb tonight, such is my trepidation

Of this monstrous couch and its malevolent fixation