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You Wake Up and Walk (May 6, 2012)

from How to Get There by Gary Prince Andrew Klein

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Baltimore, MD May 6 2012

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you wake up and walk

three thousand days and sleeps
a thousand plays of Euripides,
Kresphontes and his mother
hand in hand a thousand times
till I wake up

and make up
coffee and a cigarette and
take a walk up Catherine to State
and over some, just like that.

I could fall back asleep
think Shakespeare, smell peonies or
Japanese maples, but still wake up and
walk up Catherine Street to State Street and over some.

Wake up and make up weaker coffee and
a stronger cigarette, make a few phone calls or write a
letter to Paris because that’s where
some people are.

Instead I walk over to a
plaza to sit:

the spinning cube
in the middle, black and almost abstract—

it’s five points are like fingers
one straight to the sky.

Someone with a good camera
is circumnavigating slowly and
smiling.

“We’re so juvenile” someone else yells.
It’s fun to turn that cube—
I’ve done it before
but not with someone pushing
me along yet faster—look at them go.

He’s hanging on and spinning as she pushes,
his legs swimming and he can hardly hold
on he’s laughing so hard. she’s
in heels, she wants to try, and
now she’s hanging on,
laughing.

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from How to Get There, released August 22, 2012

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Gary Prince Andrew Klein Baltimore, Maryland

Andrew Klein is a poet, writer and editor based in Baltimore. Gary Prince is a guitar teacher and performer located in Washington, DC. They first met in 2004 as students at the University of Michigan. Gary and Andrew started this poetry-music collaborative project in the Spring of 2012, these recordings are its first fruit, and we hope you enjoy them, warts and all. ... more

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