3rd shift

I cant sleep.
at night.
like a normal person
i have never been able to
because of this
ive lost many Mcjobs
every so often id take a graveyard job in attempt to counter this
let me just say,…
i LOVE graveyard shifts
which if you’ve ever worked a graveyard shift anywhere
you know what they can be like
especially if you get to work them by yourself

in 98 or 99
i was working nights at a gas station every night from 11pm to 7am
shielded behind two inches of plexiglass
talking to my friends
the ones still awake at two or three
through a circular vent in the plexiglass wall
and
then they’d leave to sleep
while i kept drinking coffee

there is a calmness
that sets in between the hours of 3 and 4
its lovely

the downside of working a graveyard shift
is over a period of time
regardless of how social you try to be
you begin to feel terribly disconnected
your whole life becomes sheilded behind two inches of plexiglass
where you sit
head against it
drawing pictures in the fog from your breath
bored
feeling drained
it follows you home
it clings to you
it becomes a suit of plastic armor

there were words to this song
appearing one line per pattern as they played through

its well after
two am
the plexiglass
dividing
me from the rest
of the world
is fogged over
with the stale
lifeless residue
that calls at
this hour
leaving grease
prints behind.
the parking lot
empty. except
for the wind
blowing the
trash back
out onto the
streets again

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• aram

  2008-07-13

  I hope these posts really are excerpts of a longer and possibly ongoing effort. how soon till proemland opens?

• proem

  2008-07-14

  quite an ongoing effort actually.

  heres a forum post with a bit more detail

• proem

  2008-08-19

  actually,
  in case you hadn’t noticed
  proemland has reopened
  with a shiny new skin
  and a little pseudo e-commerce

Name

http://

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