Spoken Word: “signs in the dead of night”

Another unrecorded rescue

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An AI-generated image of a gas station coffee shop with a giant sign that says “25 hours”
Image by Midjourney

Sometime during the last week I was reminded of the hauntingly beautiful Godspeed You! Black Emperor album F♯ A♯ ∞. As I listened to it again for the first time in many years, I thought about a poem that I wrote in 2011 / 2012 that was heavily inspired by the album, that I called “signs in the dead of night”:

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Adam Fisher / fisher king (@therightstuff)
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Software developer and writer of words, currently producing a graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's Sonnets! See http://therightstuff.bio.link for details.