tonight, it took five
policemen to take you
away, hopeless
hands
cuffed behind your back
long, black
hair still teasing
your face as you
cried
all the way
down
these stairs, across the
saddest hallway, echoing
your por favors
and down
the front stoop
where silent blue
lights have stirred a
hundred pairs of sleepy
eyes through city windows
to play witness
on the warmest night
of your arrest, when
summer is putting up
her last fight and in
every way, you
have just lost
.
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