Coming Up

Meg Hutchinson

Have you seen the way trees grow around barbed wire?

or the way fog burns off into blue?

have you seen the day turn into a dozen windows?

it's a great big world out there

Have you seen October rain falling on rivers

or the way leaves gather at the dam?



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I've been among them too scared to cross over

now there's nothing keeping me here

so if you hear some kind of singing in the underground

you'll know who it is without going down

and after this mean coastal winter's gone

i'll be the first one you see coming up, coming up



Have you seen the eyes of the men on the Avenue?

they drink until they holler like children at the air



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People press themselves into the trains

stare the hard stare of people without names

all these tired bodies riding home in the rain and the

dusk at the end of the day



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