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INDICATING FREQUENTLY

The flag in front of the Japan
Society (duomo
To Trump's campanile) moves
Not at all in the no-breeze
Post-thunderstorm, dahlias
In Mary's Garden beaten down
On wet marble. I am teaching
Myself not to stare
Smoker applause crossing
Hammarskjold Plaza. Judged
And loved, is that it?
My glare's up off the sidewalk
Often into brown eyes
The pigeon bulk on the curb
A no-fuckin-brainer
Sweet potato, a cardboard square
Bent in half tacks down Third
God bless irrelevant and random
Movement knocking the straw
Out of the messenger's shake-holding
Hand he circles back into traffic.
Ginkgos colluding brave
And tug both ways upright,
Captioning, editorial work
I'm velour jumpsuit, I'm convenient
To laser pointers, I'm refried
Crowd. (What'd Groucho mean??)