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I've just been in
Italy this year.

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And I spent some
time in, six weeks

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in Tuscany working in a tower.

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And I tried to write some
sonnets about that tower

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and my visitors,
so two of these.

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The first one is "La
Stanza Delle Mosche"

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and "Room of Flies."

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"The room sizzles
in the morning sun,

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a tinnitus of flies drones
at the bright windows,

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butting and dunting the glass.

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One dings off the
light, to the floor,

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vibrating blackly, pittering
against the wall before a taxi

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and take-off, another
low moaning flight,

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another fruitless stab
at the world outside.

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They drop on my desk, my hands,
and spin their long deaths

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on their backs on
the white tiles,

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like tiny humming tops
that stop and start.

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Badly-wired armatures
or literally fly wheels,

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chasing their
tails, first one way

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then the other,
fizzling dervishes,

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whining to be stubbed out."

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