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I'd like to finish
with two poems.

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Because Jerusalem is
a town of tourists,

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I would like to
finish with two poems.

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The first is called "Tourist,"
and the other next is called,

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the last one, "Tourists."

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But, actually, in spite
of all I've said before,

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I think we need sometimes
actually tourists

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to make us feel good
about Jerusalem.

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You know, because I
think all people need

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someone else to tell them
what a marvelous place

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you are living in.

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And a lot of people in this
city have been asking me,

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said, don't you think
it's a marvelous place?

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And I really do think so.

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And you really need it.

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No, I mean, you--

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"you" includes also me.

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It doesn't mean you.

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It means you and
the-- one needs it.

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Anyhow, in these
little poems, there's

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a mentioning of a
place called Katamon,

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which is one of the
quarters of new Jerusalem.

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"Tourist."

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"She showed me her swaying
hair in the four winds

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of her coming.

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I showed her some of
my folding ways of life

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and the trick and the luck.

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She asked after my street and
my house, and I laughed loudly.

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She showed me this long
night and the interior

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of her 30 years.

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I showed her the place where
I once laid the feeling.

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She showed me the stages of
joy and my childhood stubble.

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I revealed to her that King
David is not buried in his tomb

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and said, I don't
live in my life.

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But I was reflecting,
and she was eating.

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The city map lay
open on the table--

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her hand on Katamon,
my hand on hers.

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The cup covered the old city.

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Ash dropped on the
King David Hotel,

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and an ancient weeping
allowed us to lie together."

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