Day 11: "Albany" by Ron Silliman

Titled after the poet's Northern California birthplace, "Albany" is a stream-of-consciousness poem meant to "express the world," as its first line says, It doesn't linger on any one image of crime, but in a poem of such broad purpose, it's telling that a few lines of crime appear at all.

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