False Dawn
The night sings outside
or what's left of it as the sun
stretches and yawns, hits snooze,
it's blue out. My eyes burn and
no one has spoken in hours.
But the quiet is punctuated
by periods of pointed silence, like
bayonets on the end of a rifle.
Means to an end.
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