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Time-Stone

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Hallo, Metropolitan -     Ubiquitous windows staring all ways,     Red eye notching the darkness.     No use to ogle that slip of a moon.     This midnight the moon,     Playing virgin after all her encounters,     Will break another date with you.     You fuss an awful lot,     You flight of ledger books,     Overrun with multiple ant-black figures     Dancing on spindle legs     An interminable can-can.     But I'd rather... like the cats in the alley... count time     By the silver whistle of a moonbeam     Falling between my stoop-shouldered walls,     Than all your tally of the sunsets,     Metropolitan, ticking among stars.

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