4 Days in Manhattan - 6 Don't Read

Once ventured inside there, one can buy things inside there.
Though it's rather like a strange cancer form in Manhattan, it not
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Behaves like one, thoroughly padded with rather cheap things––
Indeed columns of malignant gastrointestinal epithelia cells.
Is this because these things are by far not as seductive as things
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But who was the man slinky enough to provide them for switch
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Such cancer in Manhattan, almost called like an olden days
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Or one's blinkered southern forefather, yields to the least
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Creeping into any corner, it fits into the weirdest nook and cranny
Snuggling up, oh boy, like the Snake of Paradise to
The most intimate shapes of the city, it most
Naturally takes advantage of its filth, its dank hairs and its filth
Since Paradise now is kind of raunchy all over, sidewalk-frowzy
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Very littered with dingy yellow sunshades so as to duly propagate
Its very tang, a stench of wiener grease and summer anaerobia.

It is a filth disease.
Where you can acquire stuff.
Cheap, greasy stuff for rather cheap.
A satanic enterprise, an infernal non-temptation.
DON'T READ its name, don't overhear, it'll entail your own
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June 16, 2008