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Queens Claim Glory

The walls drip yellow.

My teacup is ridden

with thoughts driven

from buzzing and Queens.

They claim glory.

 

A skyscraper tastier

than dew from street sewer

with gray, AM haze

as people jut sides

to climb, slip snidely

atop, cut voices in lies,

rushed by without flicker,

a thought for

ever-blackened drop

of dark roasted, cig-toasted

coffee drowned by a cup.

 

So, taste it now,

your lips of grounds

in café chair

on dirtied walk

is unaware

of rays in sky

and earth below

and earth below

the pounding thump

that make World go.

 

Grabbed honey-stuck tips

from a table of glass

and sweet, sutured lips

from ignorance.

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joseph-valle
American
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Aug 26, 2013
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