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In this time dark
the hungry people are sitting in the doorways
there is no consciousness necessary to this scene
how to pick & point & leave them able to change their
lives,
Jean
wrote.
This is nothing theyre dying for the golden lights strung
like ropes
across Kitsilano one thing & another
& Kenneth Koch said, one line crazy
& one line serious
  Thats
OK.
It
certainly is.
Im
just going home myself.
(missed
something)
Ive
got one more trip & Im going home too.
Might
see ya next time.
One line true & one line
cop
lights red & blue flickering fast
Are
we leaving any time soon?
One line fast one crazy & one serious
would keep them sane & true
& so they could write (New Jersey schoolkids)
& you dont put the book away
because theres no line pending.
Vancouver is breaking through
your understandable reticence.
Once its made sure you
were drained of the need
of the will
for everything to be
marshalled
the
city
is not unknowable
its real
(This is the 10 westbound October - dark
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