Ear Rings

after all
these years
thinking to even
knowing that i was

never 
a morning
person that
so much so i

fled from
the sun as if
blinded or burned
one of the children of

the night
but then realized
i was a dead ringer
a doppelganger for a guy

on daylight
i was saved by
the bell but he wasn't
so lucky as i shall tell you

since i had
left my job on
the graveyard shift
there was no one there

to 
hear
his frantic 
string pulling ringing
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Lamoureux Avatar
September 9, 2019 at 9:55 AM
Twins!
Connelly Avatar
September 9, 2019 at 7:33 PM
Lol Richard. No actually the origins of the words or phrases "dead ringer" and "graveyard shift".
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