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Here's a city poem from--

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This is all from the last
book, Opening the Hand.

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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,

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crumple and vanish,
incandescent,

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with a terrible
cry all around you

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rising from the houses
and families of everyone

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you have seen all day.

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Driving.

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Shopping.

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Talking.

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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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