The original version of this poem appeared in Banango Street

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Graveyard Shift 

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We don’t know. The enormity
of a moment furrowing cracks
into borrowed vertebrae. Snake
like. As if moving in shadows
absorbs the solidarity of grieving. In
suspension of loving incompleteness.
Our lives, touched. Electronically,
years ago. Aren’t you tired of the
graveyard shift? Time is eating
and we’ve pretended so well that
we’re really well. So, did you win?
There is no proving that when you
look up into the stars that it is in
parallel to children that pin hopes
to stuffed animals. Still. You perch.
Porno magazines at the dentist,
lingering honesty. A terrible joke.

poems

-- Graveyard Shift in Banango Lit

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-- Apartment 3C 100 Word Story

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-- I'm Sorry in Josephine Quarterly

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-- 2 Poems in The Mackinac

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-- 3 poems in Brickplight

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-- 2 Poems in Public Pool

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-- City Music in Driftwood Press

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-- I said to my God in Crab Fat Magazine

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