Thirty Years of Service

Thirty Years Of Service
 
 
Six a.m. 
The alarm jigs
into him. 
He, huge
on that huge bed, jerks,
rolls to the edge,
detonates his chest,
pours to the basin
on the floor
maroon and gray collections.

 
Donal Mahoney
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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