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[essivecase]

Writing this is one way
to keep myself awake. If
I am awake now (nearly
3am destination time)
Then I will pull through
having passed the all-nighter
threshhold [sic]. I will remain
awake for almost two full
waking days then I will
crash the last 9 hrs in my
window seat and we may
hope that time “flies” by.

I am awake now to see the
sun rise over the middle east
horizon but writing in the
dark out of some misguided
politeness not to turn on my
light — not sure why as
everyone else on this plane is
an asshole, from the guy in
front of me whose seat is
all the way back to the
toddler whose foot is now
mercifully no longer entirely
on my leg, just kicking it —
so I write by the ever-
changing display of the
flight map.

If the sun could
rise higher I might
dim my window but yet
continue to stay awake
by the glare.
The cities below are
Sparkling and I see
the engine flashing red
periodically but these [illegible - lights?]
are no help to my
predicament of writing
in the darkness while
being kicked by a toddler.