Go The F**k To Sleep (2 page)

Bleary and dazed I awaken

To find your eyes shut, so I keep

My fingers crossed tight as I tiptoe away And pray that you’re fucking asleep.

We’re finally watching our movie.

Popcorn’s in the microwave.
Beep.

Oh shit. Goddamn it. You’ve gotta be kidding.

Come on, go the fuck back to sleep.

Adam Mansbach
‘s novels include
The End of the Jews
, winner of the California Book Award, and the bestselling
Angry Black White Boy
, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in
The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, G ranta, The Los Angeles Times,
and many other publications. He is the 2010-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University.

Ricardo Cortés
has illustrated books about marijuana, electricity, the Jamaican bobsled
The End

team, and Chinese food. His work has been featured in
The New York Times, Vanity Fair,
Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, The Village Voice,
and on
CNN
and
FOX
News.

He lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he is working on a book about the history of Coca-Cola and cocaine. You can see his work at:
Rmcortes
.