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These are two short
poems that go together.

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The first is called "Rue
des Blanc Manteaux,"

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which is rue des the white--

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road of the white coats.

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The second is called
"Return to Rue des Manteaux.

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"Certainly objects-- places--

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writhe with uncertainty.

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Not ours about
them but their own.

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Promiscuous colors,
the summer truths.

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He was in love with yellow,
but unfaithful with blue

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every chance he got.

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The sun kept the dayjail, The
nightjail had no keeper at all.

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His eyelids stuttered, he wore
his cell like a beautiful coat.

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His friends published a
long list of his crimes

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in the paper ending
with Mythomania.

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The cops brought
candy years later

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to be remembered as a nature
of things, a sweetness."

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"When we arrived, it
was much as we expected,

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we had sent our imaginings
ahead to do the dirty work:

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a small arch on a street of
windows gang'd with ghostly

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wedding gowns opening onto a
sudden place which wanted us --

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all this in the late
afternoon beneath the balcony

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of having to return."

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