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Words Work Wonders 2009
A View from the Upper East Side Hannah Smay, Grade 9 Garden City The sky is getting lighter, I see Although the street is shadowed By apartment buildings That reflect the rising sun Even through its veil of smog. The orchestra of delivery van brakes And taxi horns complement the vendors Wheeling about and calling to one another In that cinematic Italian accent. I watch as the sidewalks become filled With black suited businessmen and Gucci toting women, precariously clicking Their heels onto grates as they Adjust their saucer sunglasses. A teenager barrels out of an apartment Building and tightens his tie underneath The private school uniformed blazer He hails a taxi As a passing bus leaves him in a cloud of exhaust.