Let me tell you, let me tell
you, it
is the repetitions
keep us going any
way
That pretty girl crossing
on the ferry at 6 so
clearly ignoring
all the attention she gets, will
grow old, get
pregnant,
increase the population or not,
come to look
different, change
her ideas, and so,
years from now
another girl
looking not unlike her will come
sit in the same seat, not
smoking,
eaten up by bad coffee and foghorns
back
to some unremarkable life, and
the process
rebegin
That old advertisement for a cleanser, Old
Dutch,
holding a can of Old Dutch cleanser with
the same picture on it,
and the same one on that, only
a little smaller, always
one a little smaller, the
same thing
over again.
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