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Super Bowl Exuberance

                                                                         

You can just tell —

There's something in the mild evening air,

Something beyond the stillness,

The streets carrying far less humanity than usual

(Indeed, they're as empty as a ghost town's).

The entire city is at home,

Mesmerized by the glow of titanic phantoms.

 

I suppose, in financial dire straits like these,

People need relief, release,

An ability to escape, for a few hours, an entire Sunday,

Celebrate somebody else's victory,

Commiserate with somebody else's defeat,

That they might forget the demoralizing urgency

Of their own merciless circumstances.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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