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upon a time in manhattan

a band wailed

people howled

elastic inside their skins

sticks and cowbells embroidered downtown dreams

percussive waves resurrected sacrosanct spirits

we are uptown gangsters disintegratin antiquity

fixtures defyin sidewalk blackmarble tables

pranksters unfoldin our ebullient hearts

beneath velvetblue Apollo skies,

breathin in those bells

those hypnagogic bells

jammin all as one

upon a time in Manhattan

NYC, 1981