Rise and Shine

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G Avenue at 7 a.m.

A baby's pink toes wide awake and kicking at the wrinkled cotton sheet

Green grey doves murmuring together at the top of the sycamores

Bacon cooking down the street smelling up a block and a half

The Burlington Northern lets blow its whistle

Long and Loud and Shrill

Followed by four shot gun blasts

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