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"Two St. Petersburgs."

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There's obviously Russia
and Florida, to begin with.

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That's as far as I get.

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Among Niko's infatuations
with television,

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especially in '89
and '90, were--

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he became a real CNN
addict because there

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kept being these
toppled monumentalities,

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these fallen Stalins
and leaning Lenins,

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big dictators with
their noses in the dirt

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and guys with their feet on
them like the flag of Virginia.

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He loved that.

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He couldn't get enough.

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He clipped them out
of all the papers.

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I would get up in
the morning, there

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would be holes in the paper,
and I knew what it meant.

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"Two St. Petersburgs."

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"One.

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The statue turned upon a chain.

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Beneath its broken knees
were 30 feet of air.

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Under its sway of handwide
eye stood, ludicrous,

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a pedestal with
only feet on top.

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And under that ranged
real but little people,

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tiny uprightnesses,
all abruptly free.

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Freely they milled,
collectively they buzzed.

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They feuded over food, they fell
in love anew, had words anew,

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had different differences
than heretofore.

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The differences were
free to spread--

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an air of half-lights made for
deep misgivings in the minds

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of brand-new sunshade salesmen--

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Two.

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Florida.

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The desk clerk's disposition
is professionally sunny.

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In the waterbed room I ask
to be tied up, but nicely--

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you know, nooses that release.

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Detachment has apartments and
attachment has departments.

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We can order long and
cool, or quick and hot.

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Or quick and cool
or long and hot.

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But can we do the
longer haul together?

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Keep the living
daylights ever-loving?

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Kill the cough?

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For broken is a place
where something gave.

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A joint's a place
where something moved.

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And eloquent is just a
mess of hinge and sign--

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a MO where the TEL is
not yet fallen off--"

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