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If we could do it.

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This second one is Vintage.

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I like this one.

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I read it to one of my kids
and said what do you think?

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They said well, it sounds
like a Woody Allen movie.

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This is my New York City poem.

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They had agreed walking into
the delicatessen on 6th Avenue

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that their friends' affairs
were focused and saddened

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by massive projection.

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Movie screens in their
childhood were immense.

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And someone had proposed
that need was unlovable.

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The delicatessen
had a chicken salad

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with chunks of cooked chicken
and half braised vegetables

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in a creamy basil
mayonnaise, a shade lighter

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than the Coast Range in August.

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It was gray outside, February.

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Eating with plastic
forks, walking and talking

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in the sleety afternoon,
they passed the house

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where Djuna Barnes was still
reportedly making sentences.

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Basho said avoid
adjectives of scale.

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You will love the world
more and desire it less.

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And there were
other propositions

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to consider,
childhood, VistaVision,

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a pair of wet mobile
lips on the screen

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at least eight feet long.

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On the corner by
the liquor store,

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a blind man who had lost
one leg was selling pencils.

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He must have received
a disability check,

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but it didn't feed his
hunger for public agony.

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And he sat on the
sidewalk with a tin cup,

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his face and opaque
eyes turned upward

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in a look of blind
questing pathos.

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Half Job, half mole.

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Would some good
Christ of Manhattan

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have restored his sight
and 2/3 of his left leg,

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or would he have
healed his heart

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and left him there
in a mutilated body?

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And what would that
peace feel like?

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It made you want at this point
a quick cut or a reaction shot.

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The taxis rivered
up Sixth Avenue.

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A little sunlight touched the
steeple of the First Magyar

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Reformed Church.

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In fact, the clerk in the
liquor store was appalled.

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No, no, he said, that
cabernet can't be

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drunk for another five years.

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