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a travesty generated pantoum     after Countee Cullen


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n=0New Years Eve and oh my god why are there so many negroes in New Yorka girl screams into her phone as she pushes through the packed crowd,the packed crowd pushes up against her in Times Squarelit cigarettes punch into her checkered Burberry coatA girl screams into her phone as she pummels through the crowd,crowds of tongues scoop saliva from cheeks,push around her in Times Square, against her Burberry coatpull bulbs of saliva up through pink lipscrowded tongues drain wells of saliva from cheeksdrip drip drip onto her blackwhite checkered coat, a Burberrypush it like a bulb of ink through the noiseless pink lips—This is what we do in New York on New Year’s Eve—let it drip drip drip from the wells of our cheeksslicing unheard in Times Square, marring fine coats2003: New York City, New Year, horizon’s lipon the A to Rockaway bragging that we did it for the People,that we opened the New Year bearing the old hurtspeddled around Times Square. The way we tell it, youhad to be there, the ball dropped and some girl screamedthere’s too many negroes in New York on New Year.