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Robert Frank in Astor Place

He's trying to capture a slice
of New-York America in
a single phosphor flash;
the banana-chinned man, the 
automobiles inexplicably
clean as pennies dunked in coke
cruising past Havana cigar
shops asleep in sepia shade.

A facsimile from the past,
the camera’s retina
registering mid-century dust 
as it curls up from the road like smoke.