Walking In the Separate Dark

Walking In the Separate Dark

Blue second-story lights
Of waking dreamers and insomniacs
Factory shift-workers

Unemployed night-owls
People lying in beds
Who can’t go on

People sitting in chairs
Who can’t not go on
Although they have nothing else

Each light
Is as far apart
As a star

Somewhere, a baby is crying
A tired woman picks it up
And holds it to her breast

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