Hotel Room, 12th Floor Flashcards
0
Q
A helicopter…
A
A helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
1
Q
This morning…
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This morning I watched from here
2
Q
The empire…
A
The empire state building, that jumbo sized dentist’s drill,
3
Q
Its darkness…
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Its uncivilised darkness is shot at by a million lit windows,
4
Q
But midnight…
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But midnight is not so easily defeated.
5
Q
I lie…
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I lie in bed, between a radio and a television set,
6
Q
Hear the…
A
Hear the wildest of warwhoops continually ululating
7
Q
The glittering…
A
The glittering canyons and gulches
8
Q
Synecdoche
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‘The broken bones’
‘The harsh screaming’
‘The blood glazed on sidewalks’
9
Q
The harsh…
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The harsh screaming from coldwater flats,
