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CITY WALK I

Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney

To walk in a world of my own invention     Deny my fleetingness, immateriality
Continued perceptions of social distance prevent me from reeling     Cracks in the
sidewalks     Sets of photographs I'm not in     A real guy in a shop window dresses
a fake girl as a governess     I'm feeling the word desire more than the feeling
On the pocket subway map     Incoherent marginalia     I sometimes like to pointedly
miss the point     Refuse to look up, though everyone else is     All the panorama at
the end of the line/time     Shambolic, pure shambles     Expression of utopia and
instrument of something something



Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney

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