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Ex-Soldier and Morning Paper

John Grey

First thing each morning,
he checked the times
for sunrise, sunset.
They’d have it wrong again.
Did only he know
the days were growing shorter
by the years not just the months.
Soon enough there’d be no light,
just dark.
But it was just like a newspaper
to go on believing different.
For didn’t they state something like,
“The War Is Over.”
Just like those wretched lying bylines.
A story goes on too long
and circulation suffers.
And he could tell these
clueless editors a thing or two
about circulation.
No matter where his legs
camp out, his blood has
a hard time finding them.
And what’s with the
foolhardy obituaries...
as if people die of somehow
being in the right place
at the right time
when bad hearts call, or car crashes,
or cancer.
He knows obituaries
pop on all sides of a man
like fire-crackers.
Army buddies, there one minute,
gone the next.
And there’s that sun through
the kitchen window,
thinking it’s in charge,
when it’s still officers
pull the switch, wind up the fervor.
That sun will learn
when it’s dark by four o’clock.
That’s general four o’clock
to you, sunshine.

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