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''tomorrow is such a long time'

the four months
seem shorter tonight
than the next sixteen hours

out of my mind with excitement
playing the guitar
better than ever

she arrives
at 3
tomorrow

too early
too late
I'm drinking tonight

hoping to pass out
otherwise
no sleep

maybe
a few unconscious winks
and prismed thoughts

tomorrow
all day and night
igniting kisses

my wife...
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Friday
Cafe Pick Me Up
off Tompkins Square Park
$3 double espresso
$2 sliver of brownie

scruffy NYC hipsters surround me
every one using a laptop
serious
working

another reminder that
the City rarely lets you rest
it's go big
or go home

slip on my sunglasses
head down Ninth thinking about St. Mark
and all the poets and prophets and madmen
who make the...
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