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Here is a poem also
translated by Robin Fulton,

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and it's from a dream.

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Most of it is
actually just a dream

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I had after a traffic accident.

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And it's called "Citoyens,"
which means citizens,

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as you know, in French.

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They are characters from
the French Revolution.

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The only time I dreamt about
these people were this night.

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"Citoyens."

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"the night after the
accident I dreamt

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of a pockmarked man who was
walking through the alleys

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singing.

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Danton!

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Not the other one--

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Robespierre doesn't
take such walks.

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Robespierre spends a
careful hour each morning

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on his toilet, the rest of the
day he devotes to The People.

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In the paradise of the pamphlet,
among the machines of virtue.

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Danton-- or the man
who wore his mask

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seemed to be standing on stilts.

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I saw his face from beneath.

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Like the scarred moon, half
in light, half in mourning.

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I wanted to say something.

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A weight in the breast, the
plummet that makes the clocks

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go, the hands turn.

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Year one, year two--

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A sharp scent like sawdust
in the tiger stalls.

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And, as in all dreams, no sun.

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But the walls were shining in
the alleys that curved down

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to the waiting room, the curved
room, the waiting room where

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we all--"

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