There have not been clouds over Manhattan since
your marching bands left for the smaller numbers,
and you opened that alleyway and those hilltops
to the unskilled musicians of your recollection.
They remain in your city like the smell of curry
on thread-counted fabric, or a worn-out welcome.
Their music is cigarette smoke: their tunelessness
beg me answer, Yesterday, what you have come to.
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