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For the Young Black Man
with Heavy Footsteps

 On my way home from the library

I hear footsteps more often than not,
 They disappear at the stoplight on Blackford
 Or the crosswalk on Michigan.
Today they fall heavy past both.

Damn, I parked far today.

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but
I realize in that moment that he might think

About how he felt in that moment