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NIGHT SHIFT

Sunday, September 10, 2006 10:05:55 PM

It was not a heart, beating,
That muted boom, that clangor
Far off, not blood in the ears
Drumming up any fever

To impose on the evening.
The noise came from the outside:
A metal detonating
Native, evidently, to

These stilled suburbs: nobody
Startled at it, though the sound
Shook the ground with its pounding.
It took root at my coming

Till the thudding source, exposed,
Confounded inept guesswork:
Framed in windows of Main Street's
Silver factory, immense

Hammers hoisted, wheels turning,
Stalled, let fall their vertical
Tonnage of metal and wood;
Stunned in marrow. Men in white

Undershirts circled, tending
Without stop those greased machines,
Tending, without stop, the blunt
Indefatigable fact.

by Sylvia Plath 1932-1963

WORK ETHICS? WHERE HAVE IT ALL GONE TO?I WOULD HAVE SHOT HIM IF I HAD THE CHANCE............

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fifish Monday, September 11, 2006 12:03:13 PM

collective remembrance from the remnants..

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