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And then a little love poem
called American Tourist.

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American Tourist.

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"In a city made of seaweed, we
danced on a rooftop, my hands

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under her breasts.

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Subtracting, day from day,
I add this woman's ankles

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to my days of atonement,
her lower lip,

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the formal bones of her face.

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We were making love all evening.

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I told her stories,
their rituals of rain,

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happiness is money, yes,
but only the smallest coins.

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She asked me to pray, to
bow towards Jerusalem.

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We bowed to the left.

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I saw two bakeries, a shoe
store, the smell of hay,

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smell of horses and hay.

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When Moses broke the
sacred tablets on Sinai

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the rich picked the pieces
carved with adultery and kill

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and theft.

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The poor got only no, no, no.

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I kissed the back of her
neck, an elbow this woman

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whose forgetting is a
plot against forgetting,

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naked in her
galoshes she waltzed.

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And even her cat waltzed.

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She said, all that is
musical in us is memory.

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But I didn't know English.

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I danced sitting down.

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She straightened and
bent and straightened,

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a tremble of music, a
tremble in her hand."

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