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BICYCLES IN BROOKLYN

Enjoy the loneliness and loveliness
Of the early overcast
And I am shiny
As a new 5 train at Bowling Green,
I am for all time
The tone of the train doors
The perfect plain pantsuit prose
The one who gets there first
To the understanding
That change is loss is vague
That what then
I go down the subway steps
In secrecy but why
It’s a secret of no value to keep
That I look into your alternate sexual eyes
And reduce my fee
Surprised over and over
By the vanishing of the old houses
The calculation of the minimums
Headband and headphones
Cash in hand skirts
The pearls clatter to the floor