Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
March 23, 2026

South Chicago Night

By Michael Lee Johnson

South Chicago Night

Night is drifters,
sugar rats, street walkers, pickpockets, pimps,
insects, Lake Michigan perch,
neon signs blinking half the bulbs
burned out.







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1 Reader Comments
Fuzzy
10/21/2019
11:52:02 PM
Cool. I like the bit about the neon signs.
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