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The water took the pavement
while we watched if from the rooftops.
Rain came deep and muddy, passages
were chaos. We were looking
for the answers. We were looking
at the river.
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And the elevator cackled--there
are footprints on the ledges.
We looked into each other,
order on a stairway. On the edge
of all the answers we fell
fastened to each other.
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Lady A

1968

from: Thieves Or The Laundromat Bandit
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