A contemporary poem about a tool for the unplanned, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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The tool was designed for emergencies, but the emergency was my certainty. I turned it over, found no switch, and carried it into the dark. It did not save me. It made the dark easier to enter.
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