ARMED AND AWAKE

They are wonderfully dexterous, but when I go to bed at night they vex me robbing me of sleep.  The problem is my arms.  I don't know what to do with them.  I can only sleep on my side so when I lie down my bottom shoulder is scrunched against the side of my head, my arm wraps itself around my neck, and my hand dangles limply from my wrist.  And all the while my top arm flops about futilely looking for a comfortable repose.  Of course, I could put my arm around my wife, but that raises another sleeping issue.
If I could sleep on my back the problem is easily solved.  I could just place my arms on my chest, but that position seems coffinish and gives me the creeps. Sleeping on my stomach is out of the question.  It's unnatural and suffocating.  It makes me feel like a bug flattened on a car windshield.  So I lie in bed night after night armed and awake.

Marshall Kimbrough-Warren