To You

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To You

The city

Wedged between impulse and unfolding

Bridged

By diurnal splintering

Of egos

Round

The aerial news-kiosk

Where you

Statically

Hob-nob

With a nigger

And a deaf-mute

Of introspection

Plopping finger

In StephenвАЩs ink

Made you hybrid-negro

A couple of manuscriptural erasures

And here we have your deaf-mute

Beseech him

He will never with-hold so

Completely

As the tattle of tongue-play

Or your incognito

Lit cavities in the face of the city

Open their glassy embrace to receive you

In your mask of unborn ebony

And the silence of your harangue

The tight-rope stretched above commotion

Frays to tow

To the step tentative

fend shadows are yours for the taking

Where the mono-rabble

Plays the one-stringed banjo

On the noise of its ragged heart

Inaudible

In the shattering city

Alien as your aboriginal

In the levelling dirtвБ†вАФ