Breathing life into poetry, or rather, poetry is breathing life into you. i can't sleep can you? is filled with poems about learning how to live when it feels like you've been dealt the wrong hand your entire life. Happiness, sadness, death, anger, insecurity is jumbled into every breath (and poem) and accepting all of these might just be the worst part. For a generation of sleep-deprived teenagers, written by a sleep-deprived teenager, betty h. elara presents to you: i can't sleep, can you?