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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{coming attractions}
  howie good


As mourners do,
I’ll cover the mirrors

before I go out
and still arrive in time

for the last showing.
The seats around me

will all be empty,
but toward the end,

when even the music stops
caring what happens next,

the heavy-set usherette
will prowl the aisles

of another gloomy day.
She’ll be there and then
she won’t, and she’ll shine
her stinging light in my face.