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By Jack Joseph Smith

The young man comes in to the dining area: "What was that song Larry?" "Don't know." His head is down by a red table, As he contemplates the shuffling of cards alone. He is waiting for the man of the house at the dining table The yonger man sings, "Let the world go away - take it off my shoulders" At this instant the women passes by, "ok I lost the pills." She has possibly drank a glass of vocka but is worried for her husbands health, and knows that after such long absence from sleep her son will have a difficult time in the this night of a graveyard shift.

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A young man asks Larry about a song while cards, waiting, lost pills, alcohol, and a graveyard shift occupy a household.

The quoted song asks to take the world off the singer's shoulders. The passing woman's worries about her husband and son give that wish a concrete domestic setting.

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A young man comes into the dining area and asks 'What was that song Larry?'; Larry, head down by a red table, shuffles cards alone while waiting for the man of the house. The younger man sings 'Let the world / go away - take it off my shoulders', and a woman passes by saying 'ok / I lost the pills', worried for her husband's health and for a son facing 'a graveyard shift.'

The page is a prose scene drafted like a stage direction, built from small actions: a question, a card game, a sung line, a passing remark. Drink ('possibly drank a / glass of vocka'), medication and night work press on the household without open conflict. The song lyric states the wish the scene quietly carries, to have the world lifted off one's shoulders.