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I wrote this one for Jems.

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It's called "The Map Room."

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Many characters wander
through this poem.

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One you might not recognize
is actress Maria Felix

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who's basically the
Mexican Marilyn Monroe.

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Kind of a remarkable actress.

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You can track down the movies.

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"We moved into a
house with six rooms--

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the Bedroom, the Map
Room, the Vegas Room,

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Cities in the Flood Plains,
the West, and the Room

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Which Contains All of Mexico.

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We honeymooned in the Vegas
Room where lounge acts

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wasted our precious time.

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Then there was the
junta's high command,

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sick dogs of the Map
Room, heel-prints

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everywhere, pushing model armies
into the unfurnished West.

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At night, stories of
their abandoned homes

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in the Cities in
the Flood Plains,

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how they had loved each other
mercilessly in rusting cars,

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until the drive-in went under.

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From the bedroom we
called the decorator

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and demanded a figurehead.

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The one true diva to be
had in all of Mexico--

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Maria Felix, star
of The Devourer,

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star of The Lady General.

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Nightly in Vegas, "It's Not
Unusual" or the Sex Pistols

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medley.

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Nothing ever comes
back from the West.

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It's a one-way door, a one-shot
deal, the one room we never

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slept in together.

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My wife wants to rename
it The Ugly Truth.

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I love my wife for her
wonderful, light, creamy,

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highly reflective skin.

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If there's an illumination
from the submerged cities,

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that's her.

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She suspects me of certain
acts involving Maria Felix.

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The gambling debts mount.

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But when she sends
the junta off to bed,

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we rendezvous in the
Map Room and sprawl

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across the new world with
our heads to the West.

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I sing her romantic
melodies from the Room

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Which Contains All
of Mexico, tunes

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which keep arriving like
heaven, in waves of raw data.

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Though I wrote none
of the songs myself

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and can't pronounce them,
these are my greatest hits."

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