As a reader, it is also important to note that “silence reigned” and that Simic writes, “I was a fly on the ceiling” (Atchley 55). Another poem in the collection, “The Caged-Fortuneteller,” begins with the word “insomnia.” Simic then goes on to describe vivid images of a pawn shop, which is “open late / in a street of failing businesses” (Atchley 55). He then concludes the poem by returning to the street where the pawn shop is located: “The street is in shadow and so is the sky. We may meet Jacob and the angel. And we could face our own insomnia." On the other hand, however, the actual poem “Hotel Insomnia” does not mention sleeplessness or insomnia at all unlike the other poems in the collection. Instead, “a “brick wall,” a “spider,” a “fly,” a “net,” “darkness,” a “mirror,” “fantasy,” and “a gypsy fortune-teller”” (Atchley 55) it's all mentioned. Apart from the title, there is no actual mention of insomnia and this absence seems extremely important. Since the theme of insomnia recurs throughout the collection of poems (from a ballroom of insomniacs to a hotel full of insomniacs), it is safe to suggest that the theme of insomnia could be much broader in this poem. It could be “a larger vessel in which one encounters opaque or nebulous images: the brick wall, the cigarette smoke and the reverie. It seems that by moving this figure of insomnia into the title of the poem and also into the title of the book, making insomnia the container of all the poems, Simic invites or seduces us into his poetic world” (Atchley