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Morning Constitutional
1. 10th and Spruce Sts. adjust a second to a just minute Spruce yourself up to go outside confrontation communication come on from day each other to his Chrysler, talk radio waves intersection's imperfection pecuniary union we hold these two to themselves indignant
2. 800 Spruce St.: Pennsylvania Hospital hospitable corridors Franklinian history this you stay in your circle, a straight line toeing chronic irritating erratum? we got 'em General Versemaker Beggar couldn't get half owner with a haberdasher silent partner patients and an even nicer waiting room scratching her hairnet three sq. ft / day into the street the air misting dusting
3. 702 Spruce St. pass what was once an orphanage, sing an orphan's song Sisters of Charity a rarity, nun thing playing Hookey (Andrew, Dorothy) rubbed off a grave stone abandonment" reckless abandon from reck- genus species variety you can't only fool god, so very young King Philip cease, onto fools gold, surely vastly yearn King
4. Washington Square Park x unmarks the gravesbinge yellow purge black mad dash 'old Rush of '93 odor of rotten coffee blood siphon blood let blood siphon blood let some get at the Helm of the burial from Bush Hill to the Square wants to know gotta stand accused of shit you didn't do Caesar Cranchal nothing he don't want born black die yellow equally, it's brotherly six feet under a democratic wonder GW splits town, fill the word-void with a namesake from down good sexual Harris-meant at ten Civil paces to the scourge-survivors Frost Bite Bites Skeeters Jan. 11th and the grass is damn green history's fables who died to give you liberty depending on who you is no dogs allowed sniff or get snuffed
5. 435 Chestnut St.: Benny's Place Ben's Diner for dinner, didn't you dine of us things?, me & my man over there, John Wilkes ordering Gene's special variety: the King burger, no bun even if one tells me about "mice elf" & everyone this is the church, this is the steeple, steeped got some change? At the bank - a ten, a five At the wailing mall - feel low & get high. Here - Wilkes btwn booths & the john: it ain't all bad crew pressed in by twos. it's raining. construction's
6. Independence Hall out of the diner into the finer confines of sky his documents innocuously and fiercely since 1980 not stone glad not to be bone catching a cold righting project, the Hall becomes a Heritage Site, dictionarily old Noah rubbing elbows w/ Dan, apocalyptic visions in shelf me, shelf me, Melvil Louis Kossuth D., keep Mr. W. would denounce" trounce dewy-eyed just thinking Kennedy & Lincoln's feet (old bronze feet) (old bronze feet) skaters play indie tunes pending censor among the pendants dissolve: to which replies and petitions for a decent respect, a truths self-evident, no equal lanes, though all this will end the revolution will smell of lies, the revolution will not be will not be these guys, will not be Mellonized, will not revise
7. 3rd & Market Sts.: Ben Franklin House scaffold or scaffolding? standing between 1682 Philadelphia founded___1932 cheese steak invented whether Dawn's early or late, everything's in order neither a catafalque nor a catacomb be on one side: Colonial Penn Life insuring TO LET: B. Franklin, Inquire Within a right better that you've read what's dead? fight plaques of Ben's one against the other . Savages we call them -- they think the same all your stories; why do you refuse to believe ours?' Six Nations don't want to play le'go my Eggo time lines up to be counted 1785 Ben's neighbors' favorite or a relocation unremembered unremembered in beams half-baffled requisitioned the scaffold others kept it Ben warms himself under three white steel beamed chimneys enter the museum follow phantom smoke to Market
8. 847 N. 3rd St.: Ortlieb's the belly laugh not the knowing snort RT blowing his brains out on Cousin Mary NC's comping saying something like Coltrane is not favorite uncle's wife's daughter for years and has been infiltration of notation, interior dialogue's infidelity gets in your vesicles, infinity within a finished infidels infecting the pecking order in the public court four eyes half-sent half-unsent or keeping options operative in operatic acrobatics one of these Gravity Ales for us, two of what she's having stay till the night's through, maybe till we can't see
9. Kensington & Huntington Sts.: The North Philadelphia Needle Exchange morning again now and again in Kensington learning to declare dependents, W2 blues workshop or under arrest the games haven't been changed asking for change & needle exchange cellulitis detritus cold rush of '98, all's maintenance Kensington. Drive on, Ben! when then when then lots ain't vacant of cantation's acorns speak or sailing among the plaintive, lots giving birth to lots little leaguers dressed like the Oakland A's marching in lockstep among tables & trays, alcohol pads, antibiotics, who train who is the alpha mingling onto the alpha home again home again who? a cornering under border guard's order or to resort or restore question the heavens she is like stars she's never seen the stars she is like the stars radio proudly hailing cabs, bright cars beneath the underpass passengers both proof that its morning, proof of ID, of purchase, of
[from Morning Constitutional (Spencer Books / Handwritten Press, 2001)] |  |
