Empty box where homes used to be
Locks like mouths with pull-out teeth
Feral herds of wind-blown trash
Patrol the early hours

Steam escaping from the street
Collected into buses
The young ones with their lunches

Early worms pulling shopping carts
Leave the trash man to the empties
Ceaseless movement all around
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The radiators' caustic burns
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Cat’s sleeping on the windowsill
[?] banana peels
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[?] hear and holler
Hear time pass on quiеt days
Quiet in the New York way
Needlе picks up final groove
People walking, on the move
Mites are crawling in the wall
Paychecks falling in the hall
In between the [?] drama
Life maintains a holy silence
Kids are selling candy underneath
The growing crowd filing down the stairs
Dollar stores all smell a certain way
Like plastic half-life speeding toward decay
Livonia, Utica, Nostrand Ave
Buffalo, St John's, New Lots Ave
[?] lines, postal lines, kitchen lines
Waiting, waiting
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Tuesdays, Thursdays, can't rock here
Monday, Wednesday, weekends clear
Yuppies get out on the wall
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Poor folks tip and rich folks won’t
Fat cats [?]
Going to the parts that no one knows
Because they don't put them on TV shows
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