A contemporary poem about a job for the unemployed object, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The object has no job, so I give it the afternoon. It sits on the sill and guards the changing light. At dusk, the room is still here. I cannot call that employment. I can call it enough.
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