I Know I Have Lost

Tom Marsault was cutting through the alley one Monday morning on the way to work, looking up a name on his cell phone, when he passed a sign on the wall that read "I Know I Have Lost," and slowed his feet down to a drag. Slight pangs of a small breakfast, couldn't remember the weekend, and he had only seen a pint-sized sparrow hopping from guard rail to guard rail outside the Jerry Watkins Insurance Building down by New York's Supreme Court down in the Business District, a few wrappings, plasticine and otherwise, wind-blustering about the small park outside the Court's steps, a homeless man on the benches, students on the morning B line, and he realized he was cylcing through the images to figure out if he had, too.

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