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After All the Rain, Still the Smell of Piss (#3)

Kenneth DiMaggio

Waking up
after not enough
to drink and too much
bad open mic poetry
that you were able
to escape with somebody’s
leather jacket for a blanket
on top of this tar-papered roof
in Tribeca
—the loft-squat
for a post-apocalyptic
tribe trying to get
Western Civilization
to listen to its collective
incoherent but sincere
Poem-festo

But the narrow
ten tenement story-high
roof was tall enough
and aligned just right
for you to stretch your
arms and “touch”
the twin Trade Center towers

And after closing
your eyes & breathe-drinking
a new unemployed morning

that New York
perfume of taxi exhaust
subway grate vapor
steaming sewer cover
& salty homeless piss
began to feel like home

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