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A Second Marriage

Mike Berger, Ph.D.

Living in a dying world; everything is gray.
Washing on the line is speckled with ash.
Soot clings to the floors impervious to the
broom. Oatmeal in the morning is black,
and milk and sugar are gray.

Giant smokestacks belch billows of black.
It never stops. Moving away would be the
answer, but my husband has a second
marriage to the steel plant. That black
smoke can’t be good for anyone especially
the kids. It is ugly stuff.

Reconciled to the fact that my husband
will die young like the rest of the steel
workers, I cry myself to sleep. There is no
bright light on the horizon. The company
thugs beat the hell out of the guys who were
trying to form a union. I wish I could crawl
into bed, curl up in a ball and pulled the
covers over my head.

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