“Midnight Peripatetic” by Justin Bigos

A poem by alum Justin Bigos (poetry, ’08) appears at Tinderbox Poetry Journal:

  He’d have drowned, without me.
            -Carl Phillips

They kept saying leave nothing out, I can still hear them saying
leave nothing out while I went on talking without a break
about the incident in the parking lot behind 7-Eleven.
Not really a parking lot, not the main one anyway,
but a lot behind that lot, behind the store, where clerks unloaded

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