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My Way_ Speeches and Poems - Charles Bernstein

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Generations to a Sunday that holds<br />

Exterior. 'Peninsula<br />

Of the subway <strong>and</strong> painfully<br />

Re-arrange itself, assert<br />

Gr<strong>and</strong> Central's hollow masonry, veined<br />

Eyes. The patent<br />

Of each other's backs <strong>and</strong> shoulders<br />

Planned, the city trees<br />

Proud to have learned survival<br />

Effortless, the soft lips<br />

Nuzzle <strong>and</strong> the alien soft teeth<br />

HINGE PICTURE 195<br />

Glassed<br />

Echo like history<br />

One by one proceeding<br />

Rectangular buildings<br />

Growing at its edges! It is a place its women<br />

Early. That was earlier.<br />

Out of scale<br />

Picturing the concrete walls.<br />

Plunge <strong>and</strong> drip in the seas, carpenter,<br />

Enduring<br />

New in its oil<br />

Good bye Momma,<br />

Each day, the little grain<br />

Of all our fathers<br />

Ring electronically the New Year<br />

Grows, grass<br />

Enterprise.<br />

On the sloping bank-I cannot know<br />

Pours <strong>and</strong> pours past Albany<br />

Perhaps the world<br />

Even here is its noise seething<br />

Now as always Crusoe<br />

Gave way to the JetStream<br />

Entity<br />

Of substance<br />

Rectangular buildings<br />

Generation<br />

Exposes the new day,

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