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This is a poem that takes
place in two locations.

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One is New York City,
the other is St Louis.

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Both places that I
happen to read poetry

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during the same trip, also
Central Park in New York

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appears here and the
Guggenheim Museum.

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The Guggenheim as you
probably know is cone shaped.

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It's a big cone shaped
building inverted though.

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And the pictures are
around the inside

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and there's this
set of spiral stairs

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actually as a ramp that
goes all the way to the top.

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So you simply walk around
starting from the bottom

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and look at the pictures
until you get to the top

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and then walk back down, a
kooky way to make a museum

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It was designed I think
by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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And it's right across the
street from Central Park

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where a lot of
weird things happen.

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Called in the Guggenheim.

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I saw a woman screaming in
the park like in a painting

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by munch, and the Guggenheim
all day spiraling up toward

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the dream of the
skylight, a white mouse .

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The pictures sleek fish
swim past you going down

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and there are others
too and white fur caps,

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one holding the dancing
hounds while her friend ran

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around the track in
patent leather boots feet

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sideways as women run
holding the sandwiches

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in their pockets.

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At last I think she broke
her teeth on the wall

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being ugly as one might
break into a hollow nut.

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I lay in the cold Algonquin
remembering the Chinese rabbit

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pocketed and blue among the
taxis that I wanted for you,

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but tomorrow the
airplane would be

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landing into the warm mists of
the woods surrounding St Louis,

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and I would be
sleeping in a house

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so high that all afternoon
the squirrels would climb

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through the turning maples,
perch on the branches,

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through the windows
fat with knowledge.

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