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it’s a march on o’connell street.something about immigrants – people as usualagainst them. perhaps 30. not enoughto fill a high school classroomturned over at night for an adulteducational seminar. flags, brandishedmanifestos. ordinary men and women,and about as many cops,and the same number of busesbacked up in a line behind themlike bubbles at a warm bottlebottlecap.…
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Arches and stations of iron and carbon!Whose callused hands welded you hence –Wiping sweaty grime from their hardened brow?And, so I ask, you hulking leviathans docked at port,From where did you scoop the tools and trade?Was it the Horn of Good Hope? Or the steppes of Mongolia?Great towers of stone and glass, that scrape the…
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And in a puddle up near Oak PointI found a Chinese robot toycoiled in moldy Mickey D foilIts little arm broken off and stuffed with rat shitRight next to this fallen mechasat a crinkled can of Diet CokeIt shines like my favorite bank machine keypads singing those sonorous boop boop boopsThe keys my mother clankedThe…