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So the second sequence
I'm going to read is--

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owes an obvious debt to Calvino.

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And it is the title sequence
of the poetry book, The Real

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Enough World.

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And it's about a lot of cities,
thus the homage to Calvino.

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And I'm going to read most
of these, not all of them.

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"Spider City."

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"After a while, I dreamt
about the Spider City.

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And when I woke up in my flannel
PJs, the curtain flapped open

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and the sky greeted me.

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Hello, Karen.

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Hello, little bee, it said.

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Which is when I remembered
the strange webbed sky

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of the Spider City and your face
in the middle saying kiss me."

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"Breathless City."

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"Every city is a little
breathless, a little

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behind the times, racing
to catch up, thus gasping.

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That day I wore a gray suit,
white gloves, 1960 or so.

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Some thin man approached
and offered me money

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to pose in the nude.

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The sun over St Patrick's
Cathedral like a child's sun,

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all rays around a smiling face.

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And the man whose gray suit
matched my own was called Ray.

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Such coincidences occur in a
city whose heart splits open

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and two shocks.

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But this happened later
and I wasn't around.

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Though I watched it on TV."

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