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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