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This next poem is
about the High Line.

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I've done a lot of reading about
the High Line in New York City,

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if you have ever been there.

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There's a lot of good
writing about how

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when you're on the
high line you're

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basically like an entertainment
good to be consumed

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by people who live above it.

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It's called "The Lone Acceptable
Application Of Daylight".

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The lone acceptable
application of daylight

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is in the expression, "Put a
little daylight between you

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and what's troubling."

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Set out moving.

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Distance yourself from
the pharaonic shade

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of the household names
and the power couples.

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The quality of cloud in
one locale or another,

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solace of the contrail
noon, who cares?

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Why even look up when all we'll
see is people looking down?

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Their grapefruit
juice on the balcony,

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their news, their delight
at the sight of us.

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We entertain them.

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We kiss and spit and strike.

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We're always changing.

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They like it when we fight.

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I'll knock the living.

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