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“Midnight Poems:” A Series by Justin Jannise

— 23:45:03 — A QUARTER TO MIDNIGHT Deep in Kentucky, behind twelve percent of the world’s chain links, past snipers’ sights and paperwork bundled into granite-lined, torch-resistant, blear impenetrability, a vault of gold! I bet it’s empty, says my mother, channel- surfing extremely slowly. She

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