Partly. Rae Armantrout

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       Exchange

      City of the future

      in which each subway station’s stairs

      lead to the ground floor

      of a casino/

      mall.

      –

      What counts

      is the role

      defined for each piece

      by a system of rules saying

      how it can move,

      not the stuff

      the piece is made of.

      –

      In the intersection,

      a muscular, shirtless man

      with small American

      flags tied to each wrist—

      so that he looks

      like a wrestler—

      pushes, no, shoves

      then catches a stroller

      piled high with plastic bags—

      his stuff.

      –

      City of the future,

      where a tramway to the top

      of a peak

      opens onto

      a wax museum

      in which

      Michael Jackson

      extends one gloved hand