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crowds are the famous-hands and the minister’s white cloak pinned /  to the arena floor /  they fill carriages with bound-jars in preparation for the next leading storm /  you call this maneuver /  crowds into piles /  the black-waste-cases left for the monuments  you say /  it is all for measure /  finally a signal from the radio play washington /  d.c. please speak slowly /  we are /  still headed for the north

they call this maneuver /  the white buildings left /  uniform in the water line /  reflections are /  the same color mosaics are underneath /  crowds form around the bank buildings the guards ask do you carry /  the eye chart the patterns of teeth  /  set or bone here is a table for the living /  they tell us the landings are made of wood /  pay rolls the names of ages action /  papers june 6th governments still pay for the flower cart 4 o clock /  tickets to the fair

in the age of oak arenas fill with old furnitures /  the stadiums are door to door /  in the age of low metal I will ask you to dig the ammunitions out from circular-walls /  diamonds were stitched into old bodices /  you will gather them for piles near the monuments tell us /  what is measure /  this /  is all there is please /  speak slowly /  the guards are our hands