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Getting Off Work

M.

I'm finished. It's finished
with me.

There is nothing to do now,
at last,

but get from this chair
to the bedroom

before the green pre-light, the leaves'
last night telling's

obliterated by another
morning's thermonuclear

soundless detonation-
nothing

except to be quiet
enough not to wake you.

To be quiet enough
not to wake.

--Franz Wright



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