4 a.m.: Charles Deemer

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Sign, late summer 1941

Waking up to pee
at 4 a.m.

it occurs to me that
my weekend has begun

but I don't celebrate
everyone I know

who would go out for coffee
who would go out for breakfast

at 4 a.m.
is dead

Small town main street, late summer 1941

Photos by John Vachon from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress

4 a.m.: Charles Deemer, from In My Old Age, Round Bend Press, 2011