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Ode to New York

by margaryta

Nothing lulls to sleep quite like concrete waves of endless tarmac roads, the car christened Frau Marienkäfer by raindrops of a passing thundercloud. Baby butterfly whose pigments are smeared across the windshield – were you chasing the ‘Big City’ dream like all the rest?
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May 25, 2014
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Written on a rainy night, around 9PM, just as we entered the Lincoln Tunnel to drive into Manhattan.

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#dreams#butterfly#reality#new#ladybug#ride#ode#car#york#road
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