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"Waldheim Cemetery."

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We are in Chicago's
Waldheim cemetery.

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I am walking with my father.

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My nose, my eyes, left,
pink, wrinkled, oversize ear,

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my whole face is in my armpit.

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We are at the stone beneath
which lies my father's mother.

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There is embedded in it
a pearl-shaped portrait.

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I do not know this woman.

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I never saw her.

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I am enraged, indignant.

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I clench my fist.

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I would like to strike her.

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My father weeps.

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He is Russian.

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He weeps with conviction,
sincerity, enthusiasm.

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I am attentive.

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I stand there
listening beside him.

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After a while, a little
bored, but moved,

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I decide myself to
make the effort.

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I have paid strict attention.

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I have listened carefully.

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Now, I, too, will attempt tears.

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They are like song.

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They are like flight.

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I fail.

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