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This first poem I
haven't titled yet.

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It's fairly new.

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The airplanes were taking off
slowly, but the pilot I drew

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took off and flew
between mountains

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like a cavalry officer
riding to the Fort

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with names of the Indians.

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Next to me there was
a cowboy, very dark,

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given to indiscreet
questions such as won't you

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settle for me?

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He left at Torreón.

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I sometimes think that
I could have gotten off

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the airplane, the Aeronaves
de Mexico plane, with him.

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When my husband met
me in Mexico City,

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he would have greeted no
one, but a blonde lady

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with a poodle who descended
to a deluge of flashbulbs.

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I had never seen her before.

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Her agent, her manager,
gentleman on their way

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to do benign murder in
banks, a honeymoon couple,

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the scientist on his way
to a convention of atoms,

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but not me.

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As we landed, mountains
flapped like blue chickens

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carried by peasants.

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The summer sun sank and
screams like a widow

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in India burned in suttee.

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Fire wavering its perfect veil
about her imperfect bones.

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Bellboys and the Hotel Vasco
de Quiroga smiled at me.

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The elevator man soared
up and down all day

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like the breath of a donkey.

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I came back on a train
with red curtains

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and arrived before dawn.

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A customs man vaccinated me.

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Sworn back into this
country, I arrived

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snapped from my moorings.

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Torreón retreating among places
where I can never disembark

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now.

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