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Wiseguys

...Wiseguys when I was a skinny eight-year-old boy I knew him as Willy Shoes it was Brooklyn in 1950 and some men had strange names reflections of personality deed or look he and his ......

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Categories: bootblack, character,
Form: Free verse

A Bigger Slice of Sky

...A Bigger Slice of Sky The sky was only visible in long narrow slices while we played on one-way Brooklyn streets Thick with kids apartment houses one next to the other lined the sidew......

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Categories: bootblack, city, growth, moving on,
Form: Free verse

Pip Pip Hurray

...Sending the tending to an unfriended ending, yet somehow suspending from rending a newly offending recommending. Logotype monotype linotype, overripe stereotype, teletyped an unripe heliotype. ......

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Categories: bootblack,
Form: Verse

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