Places Chicago Poems

Around Chi-town there should be skull and cross bone signs.
It's one of the most violent places you'll ever come by.
but you'll not find murder numbers...

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One would think that I should have known BETTER.                ...

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Pennilessness disallows me
     luxury tubby globe trekker
hence, my imagination
     takes me random places minus
   ...

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I once suffered a strong arm robbery on a dark Chicago street. Halfway down the block, I saw two young men turn the corner and...

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The college town of Evanston was where we first met.
It was the summer of 1970, when Mr. Nixon was president.

It would be two years later...

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A Chicago Cubs-Fan Prayer Answered! 

In nomine patri et fili spiritu of Ron Santo!
Let us all give thanks for Ernie Banks! 

Let us play........, two!...

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A Chicago Cubs-Fan Prayer!
 In nomine patri et fili spiritu of Ron Santo
 Let us all give thanks for Ernie Banks
    ...

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I like to spend time in Chicago  
on old Oak Street beach along Lago 
Michigan.  There I can
watch girls tan and hear a...

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Above the roller-coaster rain clouds, 
there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane 
cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks 
over Chicago....

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carriages run through your magnificent mile
a reflecting bean - a spaceship in your town
wonderfully strange, blue-faced men making music
your wind blows, shikaakwa, let me love...

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So many steps you have taken
So many lanes you have run

I have followed you here too late
only to wrestle with memories absent

Brick walls echo my...

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