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Nirvana T-Shirt

...I mop the floor every night at the local convenience store. Graveyard shift. A teenage girl walks in wearing a Nirvana t-shirt. She’s pretty ... and she gives me a headache. A James Bond 007 gui......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, age,
Form: Free verse

Dolce Far Niente

...running, and running, and running on a spinning wheel like an indefatigable hamster; persisting... on......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, dedication, freedom, happy, work,
Form: Narrative

Scraps; Volume 2

...The Vote The lights are out, the night is still, The window’s ajar, there’s a sudden chill. Goosepimples multiply all over my skin, I know what I’ve done is a terrible sin. The demons a......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, humor, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

My Husband Worked Graveyard Shift

...I will never work the graveyard shift Because elementary students are not awake all night. My charges whom I persuade and uplift. They bring me all kinds of happiness and light. My husband work......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, work,
Form: Rhyme

The Goblin's Tales Are True

...Far more than just the Witches brew is looming on this night. for you A graveyard shift, an interview with Guests and Ghosts you will see through An orange and black fille......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, childhood, fun, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme

Existential Nostalgia

...I was well along the graveyard shift with aces in my hand. The cards felt right. My luck was coming on. The pot was full of mischief, and LeBeau had seen my raise. I assumed a bluff would leave hi......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, allegory, childhood, nostalgia,
Form: Lyric

Dusty Ryder - Both Audio and Text

...What I’m going to tell you now might make you think I’m loco. I hope that you’ll believe me, but I don’t care if you do. You asked me what - in all my life’s - the strangest thing I’ve seen. Well…c......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, mystery,
Form: Narrative

The Silent Ones

...Quick clay A dog sent in Looking for survivors Given the last hug? Hunting for people Silent in quick clay In a delivery room She was real and she was perfect Stillborn A song played in th......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, death, friendship love, fun,
Form: Free verse

Working Class

...I. Daybreak what glint of morning is this where the rusty bloom of chain link fences cuts the turf of rowhouses the weeds still talk with the legs of crickets as the post-dawn moon fades li......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, allusion, class, culture, freedom,
Form: Political Verse

Seeking a Sacred Place of Refuge

... Ghetto me be a bleating poor refugee, albeit I’m Goshen rich in faith Got a manger stall in the USA, Pilate shepherd of the Cesarian peace Time stamped stillborn delivery tis iron Rom......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, history, perspective, self, spiritual,
Form: Bio

There Are No Windmills

...Third shift often referred to as the graveyard shift oh the company I keep through these hours covered by shadows.Souls to wander about at night the lost the lonely and then there are those who are g......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, city, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse

Fanal In Retreat

...The lighthouse shivered in relentless gales on its rocky foundation Stood the test of time but now it seemed that the clock had gone back The keeper was sidelined to retire in the Sea Mission’s......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, appreciation,
Form: Ode

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 t......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, muse,
Form: I do not know?

The Rooster

...I am up in the morning sunrise, Perch aloft a fence post, Protecting the hen coop. All around the peaceful farm, The animals and humans are sleeping While I'm on graveyard shift Watching o......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, animal, fantasy, farm,
Form: Personification

Bigtoys

...Every day is bring you daughter to work day When you don't have daycare and its the graveyard shift at BigToys I go to see his cubicle where he made models of playgrounds I might get to play ......Read the rest...

Categories: graveyard shift, 1st grade, childhood, dad,
Form: Free verse

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