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POWER STATION

 

The night shift’s coming off.  The sky is brown.

A little man in a large overcoat

looks up and breathes, forgets he need not frown

 

at any glare, stabbing at eyes and throat,

from furnaces.  He stubs a cigarette

and tries to whistle, feeling for the note,

... 

     

(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

     

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