MAGIC ELIXIR
That grimy face again, some
Newark of old and older : I,
want to sing of the sidepost
jeopardies where the gangsters
came by for their food. A subway
beneath a city, both so uneven
as to be dressed in fine rags.
No one even knew it was there,
underneath all that, and by the
1970's the train cars were still
1930's - looking like slumbering
bullets in a tube-tunnel of old
time. The black people who
knew knew not to linger - .
watching one eye on the
gumballs and spittle. LeRoy
and Hettie Jones? Rocky
Marciano too.
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