"Insomniatic" can demand a lot of context. This experimental poem butchers technical linguistics terms and notation, and screams out an unhealthy fixation on cats that I simply do not have outside of this piece.

You can scroll below the poem for helpful definitions and notation, or you're welcome to go in blind:

Context to parse "Insomniatic":

• Curly brackets {} are used to indicate possible substitutions. "w{a/o}nder" means that both "wander" and "wonder" are grammatical outputs (correct to a native English speaker).

• The null sign ∅ means that you can write nothing there. "{dis/∅}solve" means that both "dissolve" and "solve" are grammatical.

• Derivational affixes change the grammar category (happy->happiness, adj->noun). As opposed to inflectional affixes, which change quality (happy->happier, adj->adj). Affix is the umbrella category for prefixes and suffixes (some languages have infixes!).

• Allophones are different ways speakers can pronounce a sound that are still recognized as the same phoneme (essentially, a letter in English). This definition is not correctly applied in most of the poem!