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<p>to the north past a house – <br />
a woman in blue
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<p>I saw a girl with one leg<br />
over the rail of a balcony
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<p>who was laughing and<br />
leaning forward to look up
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<p>an elderly man who<br />
smiled and looked away
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<p>In passing with my mind<br />
on nothing in the world
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<p>virtue of the law – <br />
I saw
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<p>into the man’s half <br />
averted face
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<p>and a boy of eight who was<br />
looking at the middle of
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<p>Why bother where I went?<br />
for I went spinning on the
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<p>sped me by them<br />
without a word –
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<p>The supreme importance<br />
of this nameless spectacle
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<p>the man’s belly<br />
at a watchchain –
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<p>but the right of way<br />
I enjoyed on the road by
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<p>Engine-drivers with their oil-cans, factory girls in overalls <br />
Blowing sky-high monster stores, destroying intellectuals?
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<p>Lured with their compelling logic, charmed with beauty of their verse, <br />
With their loaded sideboards whispered ‘Better join us, life is worse.’
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<p>Head-gears gaunt on grass-grown pit-banks, seams abandoned years ago; <br />
Drop a stone and listen for its splash in flooded dark below.
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<p>Yours you say were parents to avoid, avoid then if you please <br />
Do the reverse on all occasion till you catch the same disease.
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<p>Squeeze into the works through broken windows or through damp-sprung doors; <br />
See the rotted shafting, see holes gaping in the upper floors;
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<p>These were boon companions who devised the legends for our tombs, <br />
These who have betrayed us nicely while we took them to our rooms.
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