Shadow Manager

Shadows have their values,
their length depends on the light.
As manager of this factory,
I make sure everything has shadows
behind them until the night.

Even then I really don’t
have much of a break because
the street lights, house lights
and car lights illuminate the
world when the day gets late.

When you think about it,
I have a tough job to do.
Shadows are custom—made
with light and they change
as quickly as something moves.

It’s hard to make a shadow.
You need the right ingredients.
You need particles of light,
an object to form a void,
and a large supply of darkness.

I use an ancient formula to
make the shadows black.
Hundreds of employees cut
the material to fit any shape.
I swear that is a fact.

All of this may seem a story
From a bum on a park bench,
but as shadow manager I can
tell you what was in the bag
the men exchanged by the fence.

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