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For CC—ring around Congress, June 1972. Halfway between the rain and Washingtonas we stoppedstuck in the middle of Delaware and a delugeAt least she saidas the muddy waters rose covering our good intentionsAt least she saidas we sat stranded neither…
Dear Jonnothere are pigeons who neston the Staten Island Ferryand raise their youngbetween the moving decksand never touchashore. Every voyage is a journey. Cherish this cityleft you by defaultinclude it in your daydreamsthere are stillsecretsin the streetseven I have not…
In the Keyfood Market on Broadwaya woman waitsby the windowdaily and patientthe comings and goings of buyersneatly labeled oldlike yesterday’s breadher restless experienced eyesweigh fears like grapefruittesting for ripeness. Once in the marketshe was morecomfortable than wealthymore black than whitemore…
This is how I came to be lovedby loving myselfloveless.One day I slipped in a snowy gutter of Brighton Beachand booted feet passingme by on the curb squished my laundry ticketinto the slush I thought fuck it nowI’ll never get…
Down Wall Streetthe students marched for peaceAbove, construction workers looking on rememberedhow it was for them in the old daysbefore their closed shop white securityand daddy pays the billsso they climbed down the girdersand taught their sons a lessoncalled Marx…
If we hate the rush hour subwayswho ride them every daywhy hasn’t there been a New York City Subway Riotsome bloody rush-hour revolutionwhere a snarlgoes on from push to a shovethat does not stopat the platform’s edgethe whining of automated…
II tarry in days shaped like the high staired streetwhere I became a womanbetween two funeral parlors next door to each othersharing a dwarf who kept watch for the hearsesFox’s Bar on the cornerplaying happy birthday to a boogie beatOld…
How is the word made flesh made steel made shitby ramming it into No Exit like a homemade bombuntil it explodessmearing itselfmade realagainst our already filthy windowsor by flushing it out in a verbal fountain?Meanwhile the editorial They—who are no…
Of all the ways in which this countryPrints its death upon meSelling me cigarettes is one of the most certain.Yet every day I watch my son diggingConEdison GeneralMotors Garbage DisposalOut of his nose as he watches a 3 second spotOn…
Who are youthat your name comesbroken by the speeding cars along the East Side Drivetumbling out of the concrete wall flowersas I passDesi as Joe as Smoky the Lover of 115th Street? There was nothing furtive about the swirlsof neon-bright…