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Of Electric Whose Wires Are Uncoiled

the dead phone drops down the ground, the wires
of which wistfully whisk dust and rusty mist off

the window where four panes are set
parallel along two series of columned chairs, arranged

books, and canned goods and where a girl idly stands
by and must have been waiting for her last call to drop

off the air while remembering that day
when all the world's coins are thrown up across a sky

doubled, unarranged, high and heavy,

and when all phones are mere phony plastic bundles

Of Electric Whose Wires Are Uncoiled and Heavy,
like those absolute mystic days when someone dies

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