Keep It Up
prouder than putty,
we break not bend into smiles,
primped yet grim
in herringbone and trench coat,
bobbing along
in our crowded currents,
sometimes eaten by trap doors
on the sides of cars,
or sucked into mouths
of giant marble facades. but
we keep it up,
up and down the busy streets,
allotted our place to troll:
whale or swordfish,
eel, squid or shark,
halibuts, flounders, groupers, sunfish,
alewives and the multiplicitous minnows,
all fated to be digested in towers,
each a morsel for a cube.
one by one, sometimes in gulps,
we get picked off, gone--
into the monstrous guts
of the machinations of the city. but
we keep it up.
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