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This is a phone call
"Furnished Room."

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When I went to college, I
lived in a furnished room,

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and so I tried to describe
the feeling of that.

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"When you live in
a furnished room,

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the world starts to
resemble a furnished room.

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Even when you go
out in the street,

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people with winter coats on
look like furnished rooms.

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Your room is never
heated properly.

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You're always chilly and hoping
to warm up in restaurants.

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You buy a coffee.

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You make the pretense of
loving your paperback book.

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An hour to waste
before the show.

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You grab at the immaculate
bathroom of a college

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Student Center, where you read
a leaflet on the floor, which

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means absolutely
nothing to you, as

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if you are forced to
repeat a course in Spanish

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or take a long pleasure
holiday in a rainy place.

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Later, you mingle near a crowd
of strangers at intermission.

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Your skin is flushed and you
listen to their conversation,

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and you are almost
ecstatic, and you

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have to return to
your furnished room

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with the tall
ceilings, which are

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unusual for the antique molding.

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But why does one need
such a high ceiling?

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Better to live under the bed
than to have that high ceiling.

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The night will find you
and the covered quilt.

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And the newscaster's voice will
seep in like an odorless gas.

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And the upstairs boarder's shoes
will grind down on your chest.

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And is it true that you are
lost in this one furnished room,

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with no home but this?

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And am I really lost for good
under the furnished stars?"

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