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So I'm going to
read a poem about--

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it has to do with the city.

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Not the city I was born in,
nor, to me, the archetypal city,

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but I don't need to
say any more about it.

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It's a poem called
"Late Wonders."

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And this is the city
of late wonders.

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"In Los Angeles, the cars are
flowing through the white air

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and the news of bombings.

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At Universal Studios, you can
ride through an avalanche,

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if you have never ridden
through an avalanche.

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With your ticket, you
can ride on a trolley

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before which the Red Sea parts,
just the way it did for Moses.

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You can see Los Angeles
destroyed hourly.

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You can watch the avenue named
for somewhere else, the one

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on which you know you
are, crumple and vanish,

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incandescent, with a terrible
cry all around you, rising

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from the houses and families of
everyone you have seen all day,

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driving, shopping,
talking, eating.

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It's only a movie.

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It's only a beam of light."

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