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City Lullabye in 3's

No glass
In the windows
Of this apartment

Tacked-up bed sheets,
Fluttering lightly
Over the throw rug's flattened garden

Dark 2nd floor
Keep me safe
From the howling sidewalk drunks

Tabletop
Barely lit by
The blinking clock on a VCR

Midnight cars outside
Answer each other
In honks that cough,

Goodnight,
Goodnight,
Goodnight.

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