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Rosslyn Metro, Skywalk // Tony Mancus

   It's not the message
gets settled
        blink quick
        your region
hexagon the bee calls

For all the depressed concrete
          making up
         this arc & roof
        trained to
hold trains
down inside

1 line & uniform
all the people
         stomp to
        dest-i-nation

Either straight
or at angles
& up & down
          positioned
         re:accordi(on)gly
with necks
          bending & joint
         body weight
pressure-
         tipped in
at the knees

Barking stairs that move
are horn-like jazz & dogs
sing back
          shadows on the brink
         of collapse
shadows
on the brick & rubbed low
          long fence stand links
          metal to ideas-border
          & possess

I've got a hand for a hammer & towel
blue skies off the glass.
         Each wrist turn
bolded by ink
         & by inches.

I done the scenic business
          with brushes
and back
          the states with worry: to them
we run out:-the ought's

I done the last worse, the word lass
and grab a few
          fingers
         gulp
          down/hair-widths
         apart
         air
on the radio it's the day
         where foreign
interviewers coo and coo

perception at the slant, corrival
         the others too
got hoods on under their eyes

I done their water-makes and markers
          the props for currency, correct
        you are liable to counterfeit
libel         fitted
country-birth

I done the passing port in breezes and the tunic simply pinned
to the ontological          in the moth
of February, its wings so dusty white
        we burnish
        the land it turns
under

I done the girders meshed with caption           -take steel for granite-