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Chicago L

Hog winter Chicago

South Halsted freeze-up

Wind-chill

Lake Michigan

February

Broken L train

high on CTA track-curve

yet

sub-zero’d

into

break-down

Skyline driver-carriage

frozen

into

four-square mirror

ice-block

city

transport

cube

and

cubist

tableau

How not to summon Sandburg winter stockyards?

How not to re-see black Projects, boxed human damp and chill?

How not to re-walk cold Irish, Polish, Bohemian sidewalks?

How not to board at speed Green and Red Lines –

King Drive, Ashland/East 63rd, Halsted, 90^th Dan Ryan?

How not to earn spring thaw Chicago?

How not to ride un-iced Chicago, train and carriage?

How not to warm with hot-humid summer Chicago?

How not to un-hog Chicago, South and North Halsted?

How not to outdoor-people Chicago, all Chicago,

the busy tickets of human heat from cold of the L city?