wakes up and gradually rubs the dried rheum from eyes

Why is that stuff called rheum and why is it spelt rheum but pronounced like "roo-um"?!

We should all just call them sleepdust or sleepy-byes.

Folks'd probably know what we meant if we just said we were wiping the sleep from our eyes.

You'll rheum the day you read this pun 🤭

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