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NIGHT WORK by THOMAS MCGRATH

First Line: IT'S TOO MUCH: THIS HARD WORK
Last Line: Hardly changed at all
Subject(s): MORNING; NIGHT; SLEEP; SOLITUDE; BEDTIME; LONELINESS;
It's too much: this hard work --
All night chipping on the stone of sleep . . .

And then to wake in the morning
And find only the old, known,
Statue of solitude --
Hardly changed at all . . .


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