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Glen Armstrong
Night Shift
Starry sky, sea, eye, body, paper,
chart, flower, disposition (much different
than a sunny disposition, though each
is informed by light), circle, laundromat . . .
I’ve always loved those few businesses
that stay open all night, their storied
regulars, their gum and cigarettes,
their security cameras . . . Can I help you?
We both know that I am beyond help:
a movie star, an alien visitor,
an insomniac, a novelist
with a deadline . . . I am not supposed to be
here, but you know that and accept that Lincoln
wears lipstick on my only five-dollar bill.
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