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                  | somewhere on Bayview there is a view
                    of a bay, but not down here in
                      the valley. it's a quirk of seattle that
                    streets here go through hills and under
                    lakes to emerge on the other side with intact names.
 i wasn't trying to take a picture of these reggae
                    poster-colored trees,
 but they're probably the first thing you noticed.
                    look
 closer and you'll see a guy patiently waiting to be
 put to work by a passing hardware store
 patron. look
                      closer still and you
 see a semi-official
                    personage in
 an orange vest,
                    addressing a
 couple others on
                    the sidewalk.
 all that and still
                    no bay, though
 the
                    sky is like water, but that's not
 saying much when
 everything is
 fluid
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