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Loop Street at night

The wildest place in Africa is the gutter
in Loop Street on this wet-black night:
waves of litter the corpse of a rat
cigarette butts cigarette butts cigarette butts
germs by billions human shit washed down
from the alley where they crap and piss.

Even the street women are inside tonight.
The town says, Danger, danger danger!
It says, Go home stranger, there's been a riot,
there is restlessness and anger, bone cold
and hunger. Stay indoors. Don't loiter or linger.