The Breaker Boys at Pit #9
This is the way of it,
dust in his lungs.
He spends the night
drunk on boyhood and early old age,
falling to pieces, like a
stone under a hammer.
photo US Library of Congress, Flickr Commons, Public Domain, “Breaker Boys at Pit #9” Pittston, PA, circa 1900. Shared with @Experimentsinfc #APoemADay on Twitter. Poem © Misky 2021, all rights reserved.
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