Love Poem: Cynical Baby Downtown
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Written by: Nancy Ames

Cynical Baby Downtown

"Soothing voices are announcing,
    cynical baby downtown,
another suppression of hope,
a day of compulsory dancing,
    cynical baby downtown,
and subliminal sex, guns and dope.

The mistress of rude assumptions,
    cynical baby downtown,
is trying to give us a clue,
displaying the bodily functions,
    cynical baby downtown,
of what I might mean to you.

Old men are showing photographs,
    cynical baby downtown,
of some of the targets we hit;
I guess the animal that laughs,
    cynical baby downtown,
has had a testosterone fit.

And the party went ballistic,
    cynical baby downtown,
but no one was to blame;
it was your explosive lipstick,
    cynical baby downtown,
that had just spoken my name."