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Night Job
Howard Giskin
I’d arrive at 11:00 p.m.
with a book
settle in and make the rounds
surveying retarded babies in cribs
some with hair lips
no one bothered to repair
because they were expected to die
I was twenty
oblivious to the finer points of death
yet still I wondered
the grotesque: excuses for God’s mistakes
bodies with souls
the night was silent
only stars, the moon
the scent of pine in autumn’s first touch of coolness.
