<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Night<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">For those of us awake</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">in the dark of night</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">when the good citizens of</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">this rotting world</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">have put out their</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">garbage in black, blue</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and green plastic bins</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and the night crows caw</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">as they gather for the spilled</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">remains of yesterday’s dinner</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">waiting for the recycling trucks</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">to heave their way down the street</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and the Chicano rhythms to spill</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">out from the cabs of the trucks —</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">who will receive our complaints</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">that this life is not what we planned</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">and what happened to the stars hidden</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">behind the city lamps, and the fog horns</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">in the quiet distance and the sound</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">of distant trains out the window</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">when I was young and sleepy</span><br style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">in my midwestern town</span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">David Handsher</span></div></div></body></html>