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4:00
at 4am, the patient is a green line, cardiac dance of the priests of sleeplessness, ragged intern, night watchman, sputtering fluorescent, ambulance redolent of coffee and sterile death and alcohol swabs, abandoned highway weather less like the ocean floor, and the bright submarine carries them home to the cathedrals of electric light, of bad coffee and old magazines and death pushing his grim mop at 4.