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The next poem is a prose
poem and two words are--

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or three words are mentioned
quite a bit, I guess.

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Pavilion is where people go for
a drink at Balboa Island, which

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is in Newport.

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I also mentioned a bridge
that looks something like what

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the bridge is in Central Park.

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It also looks a little
bit like a bridge you'd

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find in Venice, Los Angeles.

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And then cod fishing--

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I'm not quite sure
I know what that is,

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but those people used
to stay at my place.

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Well, it's too cold
for cod fishing,

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so it must have meant something.

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Must have been
cold, I don't know,

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maybe they wanted to
stay, I don't know.

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Anyway.

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Probably it's the latter.

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"Balboa Island."

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"Leaning against a post in the
dark where anything can happen,

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I watch a man part
the white skirt

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of a lamp and wonder where
he is going with the Moon

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in fragments, the
land cooling off,

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everywhere the green
chime of leaves.

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In the space between us, he
has the shoulders of my father.

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Crossing the street, he
heads for the pavilion.

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Too cold for cod fishing,
he will sit in the bar

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by the window above the
running lights of boats

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and think how his
girlfriend left him.

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Pulling out of the garage
without looking back,

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how tonight an empty
fireplace edged him out.

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The tide in, high winds 15
miles out, the bartender

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will tell him that
just across the channel

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there is a bridge, a canal which
reminds me of Central Park,

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nor that just now
I've turned to go,

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trying to remember his face,
how it changed in the night

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like a sail, a hand
moving in candlelight."