April 10th

a window wiper looked into a board room
where people queued in
for casual friday's ice cream cake
wearing terra cotta polo shirts

the wiper was a quiet, long-legged skinny man
tell me, he said
i've got to know
is there a house for me somewhere?

through crusty streaks where rain
had rammed through the window dirt
the wiper looked in
at the terra cotta soldiers

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