an incident in my closet

this morning
i fell asleep
in my closet
while drying my hair

i was tired
and late for class

how is it that one should fall asleep to the deafening, hot roar of the hair dryer? I don't know, but it is. and if one were to replace the "creeping" of "The Yellow Wallpaper" with the "sleeping" of my closet, perhaps it would go like this...

"What is the matter?" "For God's sake, what are you doing!"

I kept on sleeping just the same, but I looked at him over my dream shoulder.

"I've got out of consciousness at last," said I, "in spite of you and Mute Math. And I've pulled off most of the reasoned intelligence, so you can't put me back!"

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my pallet of laundry in the closet, so that I had to sleep over him every time!