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Street Lights in Fitchburg
just up the hill from market basket
only one or two street lights are on
the other day we heard
a young man in the neighbors’ back yard
loudly drunkenly announcing
his candidacy for mayoral office
shouting that he’d
turn on every street light in fitchburg
but tonight they’re mostly off again
a string of small bluish orbs
shines suspended in the heart of darkness
lining the pathway before a house whose owners
bought a few solar-powered garden lights
at the dollar store beside market basket
it must be dark now too
in the library across the river