Summary

In “Sleep,” Pew tells the reader that if he ever needs to sleep, he should look for a church. Even though Pew knows there are many reasons a person might enter or leave a church, Pew only remembers going into a church to sleep and leaving it either because of being awakened or being asked to leave.

Pew looks at himself in the mirror of a bathroom gas station. Pew feels as if he is lying in a canoe, unable to sit up or move. Pew hears people talking to the canoe. Pew remembers someone telling him he had a woman’s neck on a man’s body, or vice versa. Pew is not sure about the shade of his skin. Pew knows there is something between his legs he needs to protect, but Pew is not sure why. When people ask...