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Alternate Takeout


Coffee shops deliver, you know,

Danish and java or a sloppy joe

To auto owners sitting daintily,

Patiently, Buddha-like, even saintily,

While traffic agents make their way

Down the block in a morality play

Punishing those on the wrong side

Of the street where legal parking's denied.

Breakfast customers await

Buttered rolls at a twice-weekly rate
Leaning on the steering wheel

Of their Corvette, a sight in brushed steel,

BMW, Caddy or Ferrari,

Cars that never leave drivers sorry.
Breakfast for them takes an hour and a half,

Until it's safe to finish their 'caf

And make it opposite in a 10-second glide--

Only there, on the Upper West Side.

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