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Chicago, wearing rhinestones that twinkle in the night.
Throw down jewelry gaudy city with her skirt hiked up
windows throw light back in your face
The interstate curls like a snake writhing through
Concrete skyrise thighs
Conceal ill will in the shadows of downtown
One way street to Cook County lock ups
Booking before the big leagues
Saints shack with sinners
In Chi-Town
bullet holes pock mark calendars
40 caliber time stamps sting and burn
He got shot
She got shot
Personal Vietnams
War of words made tangible and traumatic
Kill with an automatic mechanized murder
bleeds over to Lake Shore Drive.
A city with no reflection in the mirror
voracious vampires feed on plasma flavored pessimism
Racism reinforced into a involuntary reflex.
Chicago gaudy exhibitionist showing her goodies in the day light
Her reckoning comes at night.
