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Lola Ridge

Skyscrapers… remote, unpartisan…
Turning neither to the right nor left
Your imperturbable fronts….
Austerely greeting the sun
With one chilly finger of stone….
I know your secrets… better than all the policemen
     like fat blue mullet along the avenues.

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From Sun-Up and Other Poems | 1920

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