Prepared for every disaster - Shakespeare's Monkeys

prepared for every disaster

in my bed i keep five pillows
and carefully arrange them
so that I can sleep

two beneath my head
to keep my neck from lolling left and right
another between my knees
so that the knobs don't bang together

over my face
i take the skinny one to hide the light

the last one is the most important
it's there for when one of the others falls off the side of the bed.

Celticlion -
HEY!!! I do this exact same thing! My husband has always made fun of me and my six pillows. And when we travel, the first thing I do upon checking into our room, is call housekeeping for MORE pillows. I am a pillow freak. I can't sleep without them. Now I feel justified because I didn't know it was disaster preparation. That sounds extremely responsible. Thank you for the enlightening read, dear poet!...C

ShannonV -

just a tip.. you can replace the over-the-face pillow with an entire cat. much.. meow-ier. though i dont recommend this if you have allergies.

Anstey -
One can never have enough pillows.

Colleen -
I read this with the idea of being prepared for disaster... the confusion (looking frantically around) the panic (knees knocking) the denial (not seeing) and then always having an extra just in case. not sure if it was intented to read this way, sometimes I read too much into stuff... but I thought it was a very clever and orginial way of saying it!