A contemporary poem about the object at closing time, using a concrete image system, a pressured turn and a restrained open ending.
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At closing time, the object remained. The lights went out around it, the doors accepted their final clicks. I waited for someone to claim it. Instead, it gathered the dark as if dark were its proper work.
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