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[00:04.12] No parking Wednesdays at noon and the garbage lines the streets
[00:07.80] A cereal box with cartoons and a price tag way too steep
[00:11.55] And a fence that leans to the south around a yard with specks of grass
[00:15.01] And a dog with more teeth than mouth chained up sifting through trash
[00:18.87] That ice cream truck rolls too slow and the picture's black and white
[00:22.51] And the cabin up back still ain't cold and it's mostly out at night
[00:26.36] And there ain't no kids where it go and it don't play music right
[00:29.89] And a kid with a hoodie looks old under the traffic light
[00:33.59] That liquor store sells Patron but it just sits on the shelf
[00:37.08] And that Steel Reserve in the back practically sells itself
[00:40.70] And the Arab up at the front don't ever touch the stuff
[00:44.74] Single Swishers and blunts in a package opened up
[00:48.21] And a white tee XXXL make the men on the corners look tough
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[01:14.31] And the men on the corners have lines and the women walk by straight
[01:18.08] Bold black and red for sale signs posted up on the gates
[01:21.70] Of every other Victorian with wood over the windows
[01:25.25] And someone converses about Jordan's while wearing last year's Timbo's
[01:29.25] And a Chinese takeout menu decorates the gates with symbols
[01:32.76] And the cats are feral and fat and unreasonably nimble
[01:36.56] The trash is full to the top no cans or bottles in it
[01:40.29] Big bags being dragged down the street clanging and leaking liquid
[01:43.93] Expired tags on a Buick with one rim all in chrome
[01:47.43] And an older woman in stretch pants shuffles along too slow
[01:51.44] Pieces of flowers and a poem falling off a flickering light pole
[01:54.89] And a picture of someone it seems somebody used to know
[01:58.64] And a buzz in the air from a congregation of telephone wires
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[02:24.61] And on the wires are birds sitting tiny and black
[02:28.02] And tennis shoes from the 90's looking fine and intact
[02:31.74] And a cable awkwardly hanging never reaching a house
[02:35.29] And below it a stained up and soggy formerly leather couch
[02:39.28] And rainbow patterns of oil pooling in potholed cement
[02:42.75] And a screen door with no hinges hanging hopelessly bent
[02:46.69] And a Bentley dressing the cover of a car magazine
[02:50.24] And a Price Is Right crowd cheering on a television screen
[02:53.98] With a big bat jutting out and the color mostly green
[02:57.47] And a stove where one burner works and the oven should be cleaned
[03:01.15] And coupons clipped on the table waiting to be redeemed
[03:05.13] And a siren sings long and deep and the chopper's double meaned
[03:08.85] And the median is asleep so to wake and walk at strange things
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