Conditioning (City Study)
Conditioning is you
looking down Seventh Avenue
at 4am:
the dawn sky
a plum cracked
and pushed into itself.
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Conditioning is the man
hosing down the sidewalk
before the sporting goods store
opens, the trash and papers turned
rags, the cans and plastic bags
turned squalid gems, rushed
to the curb and falling
in a hurl
of green-black water.… Read the rest