R Magazine, Ex-TeenArt_Issue 1_Authenticity Jun. 2015 | Page 111

NIGHT SHIFT:
THE DARK SIDE OF
THE FORCE
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t’s an immersion. Practically an intrusion in this dark and unintelligible world for some people. How the
night shift can be exercised despite of the conventional rhythm of the human body? People who work applying
those hours give sometimes more to others…And they are just rarely rewarded. They are doctor, barman, policeman or even prostitute. Ungrateful jobs where people you are facing are sometimes demanding, sometimes
insensitive. They are fuddled, aggressive or lecherous …But rarely thankful. Violence is an integer part of their
daily nocturnal life. Sometimes, some good meetings recall to those people used to the darkness the need to
exercise this job yet so difficult to assume in some cases.

When the sun let his
place to the moon, when
the sidewalks of the city
are only lightened by the
lights of cars driving at
break-neck speeds and
the pallid lights of public lighting, when the
children sleep and most
of the people go home
snuggling in their cozy

THIS MASK,
ESSENTIAL, IS
MOST OF THE TIME
THE OPPOSITE OF
WHAT THE
CONCERNED
PERSON IS, TAKEN
IN A KIND OF
DUALITY OF
PERSONALITY,
TO BETTER MERGE
IN THIS
STAGGERED MASS,
HOSTILE AND
THREATENING.

house, some wear their
outfit of work . Not in the
literal sense of the term.
Like a mask, a protection
against this world where
partygoers meet lovers,
where the more drunk
digest propping up the
bar in a pub, whereas
others fight on a crossroad for a futile reason.