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The city / Wedged between impulse and unfolding / Bridged / By diurnal splintering / Of egos / Round / The aerial news-kiosk / Where you / Statically / Hob-nob / With a nigger / And a deaf-mute / Of introspection / Plopping finger / In Stephen's ink / Made you hybrid-negro / A couple of manuscriptural erasures / And here we have your deaf-mute / Beseech him / He will never with-hold so / Completely / As the tattle of tongue-play / Or your incognito / Lit cavities in the face of the city / Open their glassy embrace to receive you / In your mask of unborn ebony / And the silence of your harangue / The tight-rope stretched above commotion / Frays to tow / To the step tentative / fend shadows are yours for the taking / Where the mono-rabble / Plays the one-stringed banjo / On the noise of its ragged heart / Inaudible / In the shattering city / Alien as your aboriginal / In the levelling dirt --