POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M. - Donald Justice Poems

 
 

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POEM TO BE READ AT 3 A.M.
Excepting the diner
On the outskirts.
The town of Ladora
At 3 a.m.
Was dark but
For my headlights
And up in
One second-story room
A single light
Where someone
Was sick or
Perhaps reading
As I drove past
At seventy
Not thinking.
This poem
Is for whoever
Had the light on

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