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Volume Three Issue One

Michael Lee Johnson

South Chicago Night and Day

Night is drifters, sugar rats, street walkers, pick-pockets, pimps, insects, Lake Michigan perch, neon signs blinking half the bulbs burned out. In the warmth of morning sun, lips grinning, sidewalks folding open, the big city drifts, and sailboats lean against the Lake Michigan sand.