Went to bed early, for me, after a day of exhaustion

This darkness, I thought at one point,

either the black

that proverbially comes just before dawn

or a tasteless prelude to the darkness that goes on

as dark now as 1,000 years from now.  

A fucker with a kennel of power tools

started barking under my window

a few hours later,  

put an end to that right away