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Friday Night, Lights Out
Friday night, lights out at home
because everyone’s at the football game
where the lights are brighter than a thousand living rooms
Like a pagan ritual the crowds chant in unison
for gladiators in the arena
placing their hopes and desires on shoulders of untrustworthy, fickle giants
subject to the whims of fate,
the angles of trajectory,
the variations in the weather.
The real action’s not on the…