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A couple new ones, and then
I'm going to go into prose.

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The last year or two, year
or three, year or four,

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I've mainly been
writing fiction,

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but now and then
I sneak in a poem.

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And these were a couple I
snuck in the last few years.

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This is just called
"Photo in Life."

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Life Magazine, "Photo in Life."

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"In France, a thin woman
walks down a brick alley,

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her legs outlined under
a long swing skirt.

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The basket she carries
is full of fruit,

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as lights roll ahead of her
Gordon McRae crows Oklahoma,

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and Rod Steiger plays
the American Heavy,

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dying with mumbled
grief in his mouth.

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I sit on the black
and white linoleum

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before memory comes to colorize.

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It is 1955 and
everyone is happy."