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“Royal Street, Corner Conti

Hot day with clouds.
One of them brooding
days. One of them
magnolias sagging
onto the roof of one
of them sidewalk bars.
One of them old grey
folk singers out there
on the street. A lot
of them tourists,
with an admixture
of them lovers. One
of them invisible
pigeons just pissed,
straight down, narrowly
missing putting out
my pipe... Oh it's one
of them days that
threaten not to explode
but to implode, or out
of which the bottom
proposes to drop.”
― Everette Maddox, I Hope It's Not Over, and Good-By.: Selected Poems of Everette Maddox