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Another warm winter
60º fog
New York at 9 a.m. feels like
summer nights in Leningrad.
Windows   metal curtains   fire escapes—
everything in b/w.
I’ve seen all these too many times
in different cities on two continents.
The colors are gone
accompanied by upbeat.
The mood is cool-jazz,
broken umbrellas filling
garbage cans like dead ravens.
And almost no traffic
this Saturday morning.
Only tired, shaky drunkards
and dog walkers
and lonely lovers
are hitting the streets,
some looking for an adventure
some making a buck
some going home
to get some rest.

1/2007
Forthcoming in No!Love by Aleksey Dayen (Cross-Cultural Communications, 2007)

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