the morning after

 

the lawyer’s phone call drags him

sour into waking from the endless you-tube

of his trying to forget

the steel bench burning buttocks cold,

his blubbering to the man he loathed

because he needed him, to come

at midnight, to the lock-up;

to forget the fresh-ironed copper

…

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