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SUNDAY PRAYER, ccxcvi
time & time again,
about an hour after dark
the streetlights spark
and the sidewalks sparkle
all through humble humboldt park
on the way to where i live
the silver in my coat shivers
& she asks me if i have fifty cents
to give her, but crime & crime again
i just want to get past her,
like the president in his plane flying over the disaster
how he looked out at the ground, and he flew a little faster,
i am ashamed, but i am afraid
the fear said "move" and my feet obeyed
andy warhol may have famously said
"everybody should like everybody,"
but now andy is dead.
you are a birthday
deep with the dayshine
from dusk to moonbreak
the dust of keepsakes
time & time again, i am i am
das - chicago, illinois, u.s.a.